Mythic Galveston : reinventing America's third coast /
Despite its appeal as a natural harbor, Galveston, Texas, is located on a small Gulf Coast barrier island that makes it ill-suited for dense urban development. Early American and European settlers envisioned Galveston harbor as a place with tremendous economic potential, appropriate for urban expans...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Despite its appeal as a natural harbor, Galveston, Texas, is located on a small Gulf Coast barrier island that makes it ill-suited for dense urban development. Early American and European settlers envisioned Galveston harbor as a place with tremendous economic potential, appropriate for urban expansion. In Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast, Susan Wiley Hardwick examines Galveston's rapid rise and the myth created by immigrants and boosters to promote the vision of an abundant island with a highly temperate, even tropical, climate, ideal for settlement. Hardwick's historical analysis focuses on immigrant settlement patterns and the important contributions to Galveston's evolving sense of place made by diverse ethnic and racial groups. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-167) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0801868874 9780801868870 |