Where Texas Meets the Sea - Corpus Christi and Its History

Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur

List of contents

Introduction
1. A City over Space and across Time
2. A Texas Seaport in Texas Lore
3. City on a Frontier of Peoples
4. Public Sculpture and Civic Identity
5. A Matter of Little Import
6. A Dynamic and Progressive City
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
 

About the author

By Alan Lessoff

Summary

Demonstrating how the growth of a midsized city can illuminate urban development issues across an entire region, this exemplary history of Corpus Christi explores how competing regional and cosmopolitan influences have shaped this thriving port and leisur

Product details

• Authors: Alan Lessoff
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781477312247
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1224-7
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Clifton and Shirley Caldwell T; Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series; Clifton and Shirley Caldwell T
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous