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Indlæser... Texas: A Compact Historyaf Archie P. McDonald
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Exactly as it states, a superficial history of the state. Compact in the extreme. But must there be so many errors? Misspellings, facts out of place, and the like. For instance, p. 173, the lyrics to "Waiting for a Train" are mis-arranged. The base map for most of the maps have lines denoting elevation that confuse the hell out of you, see, for instance, p. 139, where the escarpment lines look like railroad lines. And this, p. 224: "Gore had slightly more popular votes, Bush more electoral votes and the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to prevent a complete recount of votes in Florida..." Well, no. The Supreme Court "rules," it doesn't unilaterally "intervene." And the Court didn't "prevent a complete recount of votes in Florida," it stopped a recount in three select heavily Democratic counties cherry-picked by Gore that were counting crazily to get Gore more votes. Aside from this, this book might serve well as a text for middle-schoolers, or even fifth graders, and as a quick read for a non-Texan it is informative, but all in all, for me, it was a cursory disappointment. It could use images, better maps, an editor, a selected bibliography or bibliographic essay, and a proper index. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Texas "a whole other country"--a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere--is familiar to native Texans and those adopted sons and daughters who "got here just as quickly as they could." Texas is as varied as East Texas timberland, hundreds of miles of seashore, prairies of the Central and High Plains, and the dry desert of far West Texas. When traveling abroad and asked, "Where are you from?" residents of forty-nine of the United States usually respond, "the USA." Nearly every citizen of the Lone Star State will answer "Texas!" The world encourages such chauvinism. Mass media celebrates and exploits Texas and Texans in television and motion pictures about the Alamo, Texas Rangers, the oil industry, and athletics, to name only a few genre. Texans' pride in their distinctiveness increases when their state is paraded--or satired--and they consciously "pass it on" to succeeding generations. But what does it mean to be a Texan? How did Texas come to be as it is? Texas: A Compact History provides answers to such questions about Texans and Texas. It tells the story of Texas history and provides thoughtful interpretations about the state's development, all with the general reader in mind--in a brief, easily read narrative. No library descriptions found. |
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