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The history of Texas / / Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De León, Gregg Cantrell
| The history of Texas / / Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De León, Gregg Cantrell |
| Autore | Calvert Robert A |
| Edizione | [Fifth edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
| Disciplina | 976.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De LeónArnoldo <1945->
CantrellGregg <1958-> |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-118-61787-8
1-118-61792-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; Timeline; 1: Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721; The Diversity of New World Cultures; The Indians of Texas; The Coastal Indians; The Northeast Texas Indians; The Jumano Indians; The Plains Indians; The Iberian Legacy; The Muslim era and the reconquista; Castile and the legacy of the reconquista; Los Reyes Católicos; Columbus; The conquistadores; Looking for Fortunes in Texas; Competition for the North; Colonizing baggage; Western Texas; Eastern Texas; Settlements; Incorporation
2: Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821Frontier Institutions; Missions; Presidios; Ranchos and the cattle trade; Farms; Towns; Frontier Society; Mestizaje; Social differences; Slavery; Tejanas; Indian Accommodation and Resistance; The Bourbon Reforms; Texas Toward the End of the Spanish Era; Independence from Spain; Resilience; 3: Mexican Texas, 1821-1836; Immigration; The colonization laws of Mexico; Empresario contracts; The Native Mexicans of Texas; Anglos and the Mexican Government; Mexican and American Capitalists; The Law of April 6, 1830, Resisted; Liberals in Power The Ineffectiveness of the Law of April 6, 1830A Multicultural Society; Anglos; Blacks; Tejanos; Indians; The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836; The War for Texas Independence; Causes; Independence won; 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848; Republicanism; The Politics of Caution; The Politics of Action; Retrenchment; Demographic Growth; The Rise of Towns; Farms, Plantations, and Ranches; The Texians; The Indians; The Tejanos; Learning and Plain Folks; Transportation; Recognition in Europe; Friction with Mexico; Annexation; The War with Mexico; Causes; War; End of the Lone Star Republic 5: Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865The Texas Economy at Midcentury; Rural growth; Urban industrialization; Transportation; Texas Society at Midcentury; Inequality; Black Texans; Mexican Americans; American Indians; Women; Education; Newspapers and literature; Religion; Texas Politics at Midcentury; Sectional troubles; Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans; 1859: A tumultuous year; Disintegration; Who wanted war?; Texas and the Civil War; The Texas front; The Confederate front; Behind the lines; At war's end; 6: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876 Aftermath of the WarProvisional government and Presidential Reconstruction; The ex-Confederates come to power, 1866-1867; Northern institutions in a vanquished state, 1865-1867; Congressional Reconstruction; The Freedmen's Bureau and the Union army, 1867-1870; The 1869 election; The Davis Administration and Radical Reconstruction; Black Texans During Reconstruction; A Perilous Place in Which to Live; The Indian Displacement; The Rise of the Cattle Kingdom; "Redemption"; The Constitution of 1876; 7: A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886; The Texas Population The Closing of the Open Range |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453678803321 |
Calvert Robert A
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| Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The History of Texas
| The History of Texas |
| Autore | Calvert Robert A |
| Edizione | [5th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 pages) |
| Disciplina | 976.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De LeonArnoldo
CantrellGregg |
| Soggetto topico | Texas -- History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118617922
9781118617731 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- 1: Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721 -- The Diversity of New World Cultures -- The Indians of Texas -- The Coastal Indians -- The Northeast Texas Indians -- The Jumano Indians -- The Plains Indians -- The Iberian Legacy -- The Muslim era and the reconquista -- Castile and the legacy of the reconquista -- Los Reyes Católicos -- Columbus -- The conquistadores -- Looking for Fortunes in Texas -- Competition for the North -- Colonizing baggage -- Western Texas -- Eastern Texas -- Settlements -- Incorporation -- 2: Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821 -- Frontier Institutions -- Missions -- Presidios -- Ranchos and the cattle trade -- Farms -- Towns -- Frontier Society -- Mestizaje -- Social differences -- Slavery -- Tejanas -- Indian Accommodation and Resistance -- The Bourbon Reforms -- Texas Toward the End of the Spanish Era -- Independence from Spain -- Resilience -- 3: Mexican Texas, 1821-1836 -- Immigration -- The colonization laws of Mexico -- Empresario contracts -- The Native Mexicans of Texas -- Anglos and the Mexican Government -- Mexican and American Capitalists -- The Law of April 6, 1830, Resisted -- Liberals in Power -- The Ineffectiveness of the Law of April 6, 1830 -- A Multicultural Society -- Anglos -- Blacks -- Tejanos -- Indians -- The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836 -- The War for Texas Independence -- Causes -- Independence won -- 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848 -- Republicanism -- The Politics of Caution -- The Politics of Action -- Retrenchment -- Demographic Growth -- The Rise of Towns -- Farms, Plantations, and Ranches -- The Texians -- The Indians -- The Tejanos -- Learning and Plain Folks -- Transportation -- Recognition in Europe -- Friction with Mexico -- Annexation -- The War with Mexico -- Causes.
War -- End of the Lone Star Republic -- 5: Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865 -- The Texas Economy at Midcentury -- Rural growth -- Urban industrialization -- Transportation -- Texas Society at Midcentury -- Inequality -- Black Texans -- Mexican Americans -- American Indians -- Women -- Education -- Newspapers and literature -- Religion -- Texas Politics at Midcentury -- Sectional troubles -- Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans -- 1859: A tumultuous year -- Disintegration -- Who wanted war? -- Texas and the Civil War -- The Texas front -- The Confederate front -- Behind the lines -- At war's end -- 6: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876 -- Aftermath of the War -- Provisional government and Presidential Reconstruction -- The ex-Confederates come to power, 1866-1867 -- Northern institutions in a vanquished state, 1865-1867 -- Congressional Reconstruction -- The Freedmen's Bureau and the Union army, 1867-1870 -- The 1869 election -- The Davis Administration and Radical Reconstruction -- Black Texans During Reconstruction -- A Perilous Place in Which to Live -- The Indian Displacement -- The Rise of the Cattle Kingdom -- "Redemption" -- The Constitution of 1876 -- 7: A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886 -- The Texas Population -- The Closing of the Open Range -- Sheep and Goats -- Violence and Lawlessness -- The Return of the Texas Rangers -- The Railroads and Economic Development -- Public Land -- Lumber and Other Industries -- Minerals -- The Growth of South Texas -- Labor Unions -- Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Plain Living -- Agriculture -- Education and Other Public Services -- Prisons -- Education -- Politics -- Conservative Democratic dominance -- The challengers -- The Legacy of the Frontier -- 8: Texas in the Age of Agrarian Discontent -- Economic Change -- King Cotton -- Manufacturing and urban growth. Growth of the lumber industry -- The labor movement -- Ethnic Groups in the Late Nineteenth Century -- African Americans -- Mexican Americans -- Europeans and other ethnics -- Women in Late-Nineteenth-Century Texas -- Agrarian Organizations -- Texas Politics, 1886-1900 -- Populism -- Texas at Century's End -- 9: Texas in the Progressive Era, 1900-1929 -- Oil -- Urban Growth and Workers -- Labor Unions -- Agriculture and Rural Life -- Farm laborers -- Farm women and families -- Agricultural improvement efforts -- Leisure -- Ethnic Texans -- African Americans -- Tejanos -- Other ethnic groups -- Texas Politics in the New Century -- Progressivism -- Governors Sayers and Lanham -- Baileyism and antitrust -- The Campbell and Colquitt administrations -- General progressive reforms -- Reform interrupted: The Ferguson administration -- Woodrow Wilson, Will Hobby, and World War I, 1917-1919 -- Women in Action -- Woman suffrage -- Women's organizations -- Prohibition in Texas -- Texas after World War I -- The return of progressive administration: Hobby (1919-1921) and Neff (1921-1925) -- The Ku Klux Klan, fundamentalism, and the evolution debate -- The waning of progressivism, 1925-1931 -- 10: Texas and the Great Depression, 1929-1941 -- Texans Confront the Depression -- State Politics, 1929-1933 -- The East Texas oil boom -- The agricultural depression -- The Return of "Fergusonism," 1933-1935 -- The New Deal and Taxes -- Reviving the banking industry -- Recovery and relief measures -- New Deal farm programs -- Tenant farmers and the New Deal -- Minorities During the Great Depression -- Blacks and the New Deal -- African American social, cultural, and recreational life -- Tejanos in the 1930s -- Tejano social, cultural, and recreational activities -- Women in the 1930s -- State Politics, 1935-1938 -- National Politics, 1935-1938. State Politics, 1938-1944: The End of the New Deal -- "Pappy" O'Daniel -- Literature and the Arts Prior to World War II -- 11: War, Prosperity, and Modernization, 1941-1960 -- Texas and World War II -- Politics during World War II -- Postwar Politics -- Beauford Jester and the Texas "Establishment" -- Allan Shivers and the political battles of the 1950s -- Texas politics during the Eisenhower administration -- Into the 1960s under Price Daniel -- Texas Industrialization -- Texas Workers and Urban Growth -- Labor Unions -- Texas Farms -- The Texas Family -- Texas Schools -- Texas Society and Culture at Midcentury -- Religion -- Leisure activities -- Cultural activities -- 12: Texas in Transition, 1960-1986 -- The Decade of Johnson and Connally -- The 1960 presidential election -- The Texas Republican party after 1960 -- Texas under Governor Connally -- The Johnson presidency -- The 1968 elections and their aftermath -- Challenges to the White Male Elite for Control of Texas -- The Civil Rights Crusade -- Black Texans -- Texas Mexicans -- Texas women -- Sharpstown and the End of an Era -- The Texas Economy -- Toward a Two-Party State? -- Leisure and the Arts -- A sporting society -- Entertainment, culture, and the arts -- 13: A New Texas? 1986-2001 -- The Texas Population in Transition -- The Oil Bust and its Aftermath -- Rural Texas in Crisis -- Religion in Texas: A Force for Tradition -- Texas Culture in the Late Twentieth Century -- Music and film -- Literature, journalism, and history -- Texans at Play: Sports and Leisure -- Professional sports -- College sports -- Recreational activities -- The Paradox of Texas Politics -- State politics in transition -- The Republicans triumphant -- The rise of minority-group politics -- Historic Assumptions in Transition -- Public education: An ideological and financial battleground. Higher education: A world-class system? -- The challenges of criminal justice -- The water dilemma -- Protecting the Texas environment -- Taxes: A decision deferred -- Conclusion -- 14: Into the New Millennium, 2001-2012 -- A Changing Population -- The Modern Texas Economy -- Terrorism, Enron, and recession -- Texas and the "Great Recession" -- The resurgence of oil and gas -- Texas and Mexico -- An uneven prosperity -- Texas farmers: The end of a dream? -- The Changing Face of Urban Texas -- Texas Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Social conservatives and the rise of Rick Perry -- Redistricting and party strife -- Republicans and the challenges of governing -- The rise of the Tea Party -- The Perry presidential bid -- Current Issues, Future Challenges -- Public education -- Higher education -- Criminal justice -- Water resources -- Air quality -- New environmental concerns -- Poverty -- Health care -- Taxes -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Spanish Governors of Texas* -- (According to "Irigoyen, José," from The Handbook of Texas Online, José Irigoyen was appointed governor, but he never took office.) -- (According to "Muñoz, Manuel," from the The Handbook of Texas Online, Elguezábal became interim governor in 1797 because Muñoz was ill, and continued in this post following Muñoz's death in July of 1799.) -- (According to "Casas Revolt," from The Handbook of Texas Online, on Jan. 22, 1811 Juan Bautista de las Casas and his supporters arrested Governor Manuel Salcedo. The revolutionary government later appointed Casas ad interim governor of Texas. Casas's government was overthrown in March of 1811, and Salcedo returned to power.) -- Provincial Governors of Texas -- Governors of Coahuila y Texas -- Presidents of Texas -- Governors of Texas -- United States Senators -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795828203321 |
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Calvert Robert A
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The History of Texas
| The History of Texas |
| Autore | Calvert Robert A |
| Edizione | [5th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (532 pages) |
| Disciplina | 976.4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
De LeonArnoldo
CantrellGregg |
| Soggetto topico | Texas -- History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781118617922
9781118617731 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- 1: Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721 -- The Diversity of New World Cultures -- The Indians of Texas -- The Coastal Indians -- The Northeast Texas Indians -- The Jumano Indians -- The Plains Indians -- The Iberian Legacy -- The Muslim era and the reconquista -- Castile and the legacy of the reconquista -- Los Reyes Católicos -- Columbus -- The conquistadores -- Looking for Fortunes in Texas -- Competition for the North -- Colonizing baggage -- Western Texas -- Eastern Texas -- Settlements -- Incorporation -- 2: Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821 -- Frontier Institutions -- Missions -- Presidios -- Ranchos and the cattle trade -- Farms -- Towns -- Frontier Society -- Mestizaje -- Social differences -- Slavery -- Tejanas -- Indian Accommodation and Resistance -- The Bourbon Reforms -- Texas Toward the End of the Spanish Era -- Independence from Spain -- Resilience -- 3: Mexican Texas, 1821-1836 -- Immigration -- The colonization laws of Mexico -- Empresario contracts -- The Native Mexicans of Texas -- Anglos and the Mexican Government -- Mexican and American Capitalists -- The Law of April 6, 1830, Resisted -- Liberals in Power -- The Ineffectiveness of the Law of April 6, 1830 -- A Multicultural Society -- Anglos -- Blacks -- Tejanos -- Indians -- The Centralists Back in Power, 1834-1836 -- The War for Texas Independence -- Causes -- Independence won -- 4: Launching a Nation, 1836-1848 -- Republicanism -- The Politics of Caution -- The Politics of Action -- Retrenchment -- Demographic Growth -- The Rise of Towns -- Farms, Plantations, and Ranches -- The Texians -- The Indians -- The Tejanos -- Learning and Plain Folks -- Transportation -- Recognition in Europe -- Friction with Mexico -- Annexation -- The War with Mexico -- Causes.
War -- End of the Lone Star Republic -- 5: Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865 -- The Texas Economy at Midcentury -- Rural growth -- Urban industrialization -- Transportation -- Texas Society at Midcentury -- Inequality -- Black Texans -- Mexican Americans -- American Indians -- Women -- Education -- Newspapers and literature -- Religion -- Texas Politics at Midcentury -- Sectional troubles -- Whigs, Democrats, Know-Nothings, and Republicans -- 1859: A tumultuous year -- Disintegration -- Who wanted war? -- Texas and the Civil War -- The Texas front -- The Confederate front -- Behind the lines -- At war's end -- 6: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876 -- Aftermath of the War -- Provisional government and Presidential Reconstruction -- The ex-Confederates come to power, 1866-1867 -- Northern institutions in a vanquished state, 1865-1867 -- Congressional Reconstruction -- The Freedmen's Bureau and the Union army, 1867-1870 -- The 1869 election -- The Davis Administration and Radical Reconstruction -- Black Texans During Reconstruction -- A Perilous Place in Which to Live -- The Indian Displacement -- The Rise of the Cattle Kingdom -- "Redemption" -- The Constitution of 1876 -- 7: A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886 -- The Texas Population -- The Closing of the Open Range -- Sheep and Goats -- Violence and Lawlessness -- The Return of the Texas Rangers -- The Railroads and Economic Development -- Public Land -- Lumber and Other Industries -- Minerals -- The Growth of South Texas -- Labor Unions -- Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Plain Living -- Agriculture -- Education and Other Public Services -- Prisons -- Education -- Politics -- Conservative Democratic dominance -- The challengers -- The Legacy of the Frontier -- 8: Texas in the Age of Agrarian Discontent -- Economic Change -- King Cotton -- Manufacturing and urban growth. Growth of the lumber industry -- The labor movement -- Ethnic Groups in the Late Nineteenth Century -- African Americans -- Mexican Americans -- Europeans and other ethnics -- Women in Late-Nineteenth-Century Texas -- Agrarian Organizations -- Texas Politics, 1886-1900 -- Populism -- Texas at Century's End -- 9: Texas in the Progressive Era, 1900-1929 -- Oil -- Urban Growth and Workers -- Labor Unions -- Agriculture and Rural Life -- Farm laborers -- Farm women and families -- Agricultural improvement efforts -- Leisure -- Ethnic Texans -- African Americans -- Tejanos -- Other ethnic groups -- Texas Politics in the New Century -- Progressivism -- Governors Sayers and Lanham -- Baileyism and antitrust -- The Campbell and Colquitt administrations -- General progressive reforms -- Reform interrupted: The Ferguson administration -- Woodrow Wilson, Will Hobby, and World War I, 1917-1919 -- Women in Action -- Woman suffrage -- Women's organizations -- Prohibition in Texas -- Texas after World War I -- The return of progressive administration: Hobby (1919-1921) and Neff (1921-1925) -- The Ku Klux Klan, fundamentalism, and the evolution debate -- The waning of progressivism, 1925-1931 -- 10: Texas and the Great Depression, 1929-1941 -- Texans Confront the Depression -- State Politics, 1929-1933 -- The East Texas oil boom -- The agricultural depression -- The Return of "Fergusonism," 1933-1935 -- The New Deal and Taxes -- Reviving the banking industry -- Recovery and relief measures -- New Deal farm programs -- Tenant farmers and the New Deal -- Minorities During the Great Depression -- Blacks and the New Deal -- African American social, cultural, and recreational life -- Tejanos in the 1930s -- Tejano social, cultural, and recreational activities -- Women in the 1930s -- State Politics, 1935-1938 -- National Politics, 1935-1938. State Politics, 1938-1944: The End of the New Deal -- "Pappy" O'Daniel -- Literature and the Arts Prior to World War II -- 11: War, Prosperity, and Modernization, 1941-1960 -- Texas and World War II -- Politics during World War II -- Postwar Politics -- Beauford Jester and the Texas "Establishment" -- Allan Shivers and the political battles of the 1950s -- Texas politics during the Eisenhower administration -- Into the 1960s under Price Daniel -- Texas Industrialization -- Texas Workers and Urban Growth -- Labor Unions -- Texas Farms -- The Texas Family -- Texas Schools -- Texas Society and Culture at Midcentury -- Religion -- Leisure activities -- Cultural activities -- 12: Texas in Transition, 1960-1986 -- The Decade of Johnson and Connally -- The 1960 presidential election -- The Texas Republican party after 1960 -- Texas under Governor Connally -- The Johnson presidency -- The 1968 elections and their aftermath -- Challenges to the White Male Elite for Control of Texas -- The Civil Rights Crusade -- Black Texans -- Texas Mexicans -- Texas women -- Sharpstown and the End of an Era -- The Texas Economy -- Toward a Two-Party State? -- Leisure and the Arts -- A sporting society -- Entertainment, culture, and the arts -- 13: A New Texas? 1986-2001 -- The Texas Population in Transition -- The Oil Bust and its Aftermath -- Rural Texas in Crisis -- Religion in Texas: A Force for Tradition -- Texas Culture in the Late Twentieth Century -- Music and film -- Literature, journalism, and history -- Texans at Play: Sports and Leisure -- Professional sports -- College sports -- Recreational activities -- The Paradox of Texas Politics -- State politics in transition -- The Republicans triumphant -- The rise of minority-group politics -- Historic Assumptions in Transition -- Public education: An ideological and financial battleground. Higher education: A world-class system? -- The challenges of criminal justice -- The water dilemma -- Protecting the Texas environment -- Taxes: A decision deferred -- Conclusion -- 14: Into the New Millennium, 2001-2012 -- A Changing Population -- The Modern Texas Economy -- Terrorism, Enron, and recession -- Texas and the "Great Recession" -- The resurgence of oil and gas -- Texas and Mexico -- An uneven prosperity -- Texas farmers: The end of a dream? -- The Changing Face of Urban Texas -- Texas Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Social conservatives and the rise of Rick Perry -- Redistricting and party strife -- Republicans and the challenges of governing -- The rise of the Tea Party -- The Perry presidential bid -- Current Issues, Future Challenges -- Public education -- Higher education -- Criminal justice -- Water resources -- Air quality -- New environmental concerns -- Poverty -- Health care -- Taxes -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Spanish Governors of Texas* -- (According to "Irigoyen, José," from The Handbook of Texas Online, José Irigoyen was appointed governor, but he never took office.) -- (According to "Muñoz, Manuel," from the The Handbook of Texas Online, Elguezábal became interim governor in 1797 because Muñoz was ill, and continued in this post following Muñoz's death in July of 1799.) -- (According to "Casas Revolt," from The Handbook of Texas Online, on Jan. 22, 1811 Juan Bautista de las Casas and his supporters arrested Governor Manuel Salcedo. The revolutionary government later appointed Casas ad interim governor of Texas. Casas's government was overthrown in March of 1811, and Salcedo returned to power.) -- Provincial Governors of Texas -- Governors of Coahuila y Texas -- Presidents of Texas -- Governors of Texas -- United States Senators -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815545303321 |
|
Calvert Robert A
|
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| Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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