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"Running more than 1,200 miles from headwaters in eastern New Mexico through the middle of Texas to the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River has frustrated developers for nearly two centuries. This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow. The vast majority of projects proposed or constructed in this watershed were failures, undone by the geology of the river as much as the cost of improvement. When developers erected locks, the river changed course. When they built large-scale dams, floodwaters overflowed the concrete rims. When they constructed levees, the soils collapsed. Yet lawmakers and laypeople, boosters and engineers continued to work toward improving the river and harnessing it for various uses. Through the plight of the Brazos River Archer illuminates the broader commentary on the efforts to tame this nation's rivers as well as its historical perspectives on development and technology. The struggle to overcome nature, Archer notes, reflects a quintessentially American faith in technology"--

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX). --- Brazos River Valley (Tex.) --- Brazos River (Tex.) --- Brazos Valley (Tex.) --- Social conditions --- History. --- Environmental conditions

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Businessmen --- Businesspeople --- Businesspeople. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Professional employees --- Business men --- Biography. --- Biography --- Wortham, Gus S., --- American General Life Insurance Company. --- Texas. --- 1835 --- Akałii Bikéyah --- Civitas Texiae --- Dekesasi --- Dekesasi zhou --- Estado de Texas --- Kekeka --- Medinat Ṭeḳsas --- Politeia tou Texas --- Republic of Texas --- Shtat Tėkhas --- State of Texas --- Taaksaas --- Teeksăs --- Tejas --- Tekhas --- Tekisasu --- Tekisasu-sh --- Tekisasush --- Teksas --- Teksas Eyaleti --- Teksasa --- Teksasas --- Teksaso --- Teksasos --- T'eksas --- T'eksasŭ-ju --- T'eksasŭju --- Ṭeḳses --- Téʼsiz Hahoodzo --- Tet-khiet-sat-s --- Texas (Province) --- Texas (Republic) --- Texas suyu --- Texia --- Tiksās --- TX --- Wilāyat Tiksās --- Mexico --- Seaboard Life Insurance Company --- E-books

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"Poltica offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico's history, namely, the dramatic shift in national identities initiated by Nuevomexicanos when their province became ruled by the United States. Gonzales providesan insightful, rigorous, and controversial interpretation of how Nuevomexicano political competition was woven into the Democratic and Republican two-party system that emerged in the United States between the 1850s and 1912, when New Mexico became a state. Drawing on newly discovered archival and primary sources, he explores how Nuevomexicanos relied on a long tradition of political engagement and a preexisting republican disposition and practice to elaborate a dual-party political system mirroring the contours of U.S. national politics. Poltica is a tour de force of political history in the nineteenth-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands that reinterprets colonization, reconstructs Euro-American and Nuevomexicano relations, and recasts the prevailing historical narrative of territorial expansion and incorporation in North American imperial history. Gonzales provides critical insights into several discrete historical processes, such as U.S. racialization and citizenship, integration and marginalization, accommodation and resistance, internal colonialism, and the long struggle for political inclusion in the borderlands, shedding light on debates taking place today over Latinos and U.S. citizenship"--

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM,OK, TX). --- Hispanic Americans --- Mexican Americans --- Hispanics (United States) --- Latino Americans --- Latinos (United States) --- Latinxs --- Spanish Americans in the United States --- Spanish-speaking people (United States) --- Spanish-surnamed people (United States) --- Ethnology --- Latin Americans --- Spanish Americans (Latin America) --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Politics and government --- Mexican-American Border Region --- New Mexico --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region --- Historiography.

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"Upon George Mitchell's death in 2013, The Economist proclaimed, "Few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell," a billionaire Texas oilman who defied the stereotypical swagger so identified with that industry. In George P. Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet, award-winning author Loren C. Steffy offers the first definitive biography of Mitchell, placing his life and legacy in a global context, from the significance of his discoveries to the lingering controversies they inspired. Mitchell will forever be known as "the father of fracking," but he didn't invent the drilling process; he perfected it and made it profitable, one of many varied ventures he pursued for years. Long before his company ever fracked a well, he pioneered sustainable development by creating The Woodlands, near Houston, one of the first and most successful master-planned communities. Its focus on environmental protection and livability redefined the American suburb. This apparent contradiction between his energy interests and environmental pursuits, which his son Todd dubbed "the Mitchell Paradox," was just one of many that defined Mitchell's life. Anyone who puts fuel in a tank or turns on a light switch has benefited from Mitchell's efforts. This compelling biography reveals Mitchell as a modern renaissance man who sought to make the world a better, more livable place, a man whose unbounded intellectual curiosity led him to support a wide range of interests in business, science, and philanthropy."--Amazon.com

Businesspeople --- Philanthropists --- Hydraulic fracturing. --- Fracking (Engineering) --- Fracturing, Hydraulic --- Hydrofracking --- Hydraulic engineering --- Rock mechanics --- Altruists --- Humanitarians --- Benefactors --- Business people --- Business persons --- Businesspersons --- Entrepreneurs --- Professional employees --- Mitchell, George P. --- Paraskevopoulos, Savvas, --- Hydraulic fracturing --- E-books --- Texas. --- 1835 --- Akałii Bikéyah --- Civitas Texiae --- Dekesasi --- Dekesasi zhou --- Estado de Texas --- Kekeka --- Medinat Ṭeḳsas --- Politeia tou Texas --- Republic of Texas --- Shtat Tėkhas --- State of Texas --- Taaksaas --- Teeksăs --- Tejas --- Tekhas --- Tekisasu --- Tekisasu-sh --- Tekisasush --- Teksas --- Teksas Eyaleti --- Teksasa --- Teksasas --- Teksaso --- Teksasos --- T'eksas --- T'eksasŭ-ju --- T'eksasŭju --- Ṭeḳses --- Téʼsiz Hahoodzo --- Tet-khiet-sat-s --- Texas (Province) --- Texas (Republic) --- Texas suyu --- Texia --- Tiksās --- TX --- Wilāyat Tiksās --- Mexico

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"More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States. In particular, the decade following the revolution saw a dramatic rise in the lynching of ethnic Mexicans in Texas. This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans. They were able to use the legal system to their advantage, and their actions often went unpunished. Villanueva's work further differentiates the borderland lynching of ethnic Mexicans from the Southern lynching of African Americans by asserting that the former was about citizenship and sovereignty, as many victims' families had resources to investigate the crimes and thereby place the incidents on an international stage"--Provided by publisher.

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX). --- Ethnic conflict --- Lynching --- Mexican Americans --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Homicide --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- History --- Civil rights --- Violence against --- Mexico --- Mexican-American Border Region --- Texas --- American-Mexican Border Region --- Border Region, American-Mexican --- Border Region, Mexican-American --- Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) --- Mexico-United States Border Region --- Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos --- United States-Mexico Border Region --- Teksas --- Tekhas --- Tejas --- Texas (Republic) --- Texas (Province) --- Republic of Texas --- State of Texas --- تكساس --- Tiksās --- ولاية تكساس --- Wilāyat Tiksās --- Штат Тэхас --- Shtat Tėkhas --- Тэхас --- Тексас --- Техас --- Akałii Bikéyah --- Téʼsiz Hahoodzo --- Τέξας --- Πολιτεία του Τέξας --- Politeia tou Texas --- Estado de Texas --- Teksaso --- Tet-khiet-sat-sṳ̂ --- Teeksăs --- 텍사스 주 --- T'eksasŭ-ju --- 텍사스주 --- T'eksasŭju --- 텍사스 --- T'eksasŭ --- Kekeka --- Taaksaas --- טקסס --- מדינת טקסס --- Medinat Ṭeḳsas --- Texia --- Civitas Texiae --- Teksasa --- Teksasas --- テキサス州 --- Tekisasu-shū --- Tekisasushū --- テキサス --- Tekisasu --- Texas suyu --- Teksas Eyaleti --- טעקסעס --- Ṭeḳses --- Teksasos --- 得克萨斯州 --- Dekesasi zhou --- 得克萨斯 --- Dekesasi --- TX --- Tex. --- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) --- Texas (Provisional government, 1835) --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Influence. --- Anti-lynching movements --- Mexican United States