Pioneer Jewish Texans
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492846 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to a people
- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom
- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence
- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west
- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation
- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds
- The financiers : new frontiers in banking
- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases
- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement
- The great merchants : some called them princes
- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future
- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education
- The artists : vanguards in the arts
- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize
- The lawyers : justice for all.