Pioneer Jewish Texans [[electronic resource] /] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern
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Ornish Natalie
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| Titolo: |
Pioneer Jewish Texans [[electronic resource] /] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern
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| Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.4/004924 |
| Soggetto topico: | Jews - Texas |
| Soggetto geografico: | Texas Biography |
| Altri autori: |
AlpernSara
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish's meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major enga |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pioneer Jewish Texans |
| ISBN: | 1-299-05346-7 |
| 1-60344-433-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781735703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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