Tejano Empire - Life on the South Texas Ranchos (Paperback)

Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. In ""Tejano Empire"", historian Andres Tijerina describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, networks of communication, Catholic religion, and a material culture well adapted to the conditions of the region. After the introduction's historical overview of the region, the chapters address specific elements of the lives people led in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas: work ways and tools, housing and ranch layouts, family networks and authority patterns, education and the arts, religion and daily prayer.A gallery of energetic line drawings by the late Ricardo M. Beasley and graceful pen-and-ink detail drawings by Servando G. Hinojosa of Alice, Texas, commissioned especially for this book, intricately portray scenes from South Texas daily life.

General

Imprint:	Texas A & M University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Andres Tijerina
Illustrators:	Ricardo M. Beasley • Servando G. Hinojosa
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-60344-051-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-60344-051-8
Barcode:	9781603440516

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