This is the first general history of San Antonio, Texas, the
seventh largest city in the nation. Its past is complex and ranges
across 300 years, from the community's origins as a tiny Spanish
frontier town to its contemporary status as a vital American
mega-city. Site of some of the most violent struggles between
warring empires and people-historians believe San Antonio may be
the most fought-over city in U.S. history-it is perhaps most
celebrated for the iconic 1836 Battle of the Alamo. The city is
also home to four beautifully restored Spanish missions, which in
2015 UNESCO designated a World Heritage Site and have become
integral to San Antonio's robust tourist economy along with the
fabled River Walk. This study weaves together a series of
environmental, social, political, and cultural pressures that have
shaped life in the Alamo City over the last three centuries.
Residents have long fought to protect and utilize water and other
resources even as they have struggled to achieve equal rights and
build a more open and democratic society. Activists from all
sectors of this multicultural city have believed deeply in its
promise even though they have had to push hard to secure and expand
its potential. Their efforts were every bit as intense in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they have been in the
twenty-first. Written for a general audience, but with a scholarly
attention to detail and nuance, San Antonio: A Tricentennial
History immerses readers in the city's fascinating and fraught
past.
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