Excavations at the Alamo Shrine
Author | : Jack D. Eaton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
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Author | : Jack D. Eaton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : University of Texas at San Antonio. Center for Archaeological Research |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Holly Beachley Brear |
Publisher | : Univ of TX + ORM |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292763239 |
This study explores the multiple histories and mythologies of San Antonio’s famous Spanish mission and Texas Revolution battle site. The Alamo Mission still evokes tremendous feeling among many Americans, and especially among Texans. For Anglo Texans, it is the “Cradle of Texas Liberty” and a symbol of Western expansion. But Hispanic Texans increasingly view the Alamo as a stolen symbol, its origin as a Spanish mission forgotten, its famous defeat used to rob Hispanics of their place in Texas history. In this study, Holly Beachley Brear explores what the Alamo means to the numerous groups that lay claim to its heritage. Brear shows how—and why—Alamo myths often diverge from the historical facts. She decodes the agendas of various groups, including the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (who maintain the site), the Order of the Alamo, the Texas Cavaliers, and LULAC. She also probes attempts by individuals and groups to rewrite the Alamo myth to include more positive roles for themselves. With new perspectives on all the sacred icons of the Alamo and the Fiesta that celebrates (one version of) its history each year, Inherit the Alamo challenges stereotypes and offers a new understanding of the Alamo’s ongoing role in shaping Texas and American history and mythology.
Author | : Wallace O. Chariton |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
ISBN | : 1556222556 |
Exploring the Alamo legends sheds some new light onto a few of the shadows of the Alamo legends.
Author | : Jacinto Quirarte |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2010-07-22 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0292787820 |
Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas Built to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The mission churches, once beautifully adorned with carvings and sculptures on their façades and furnished inside with elaborate altarpieces and paintings, today only hint at their colonial-era glory through the vestiges of art and architectural decoration that remain. To paint a more complete portrait of the missions as they once were, Jacinto Quirarte here draws on decades of on-site and archival research to offer the most comprehensive reconstruction and description of the original art and architecture of the six remaining Texas missions—San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada in San Antonio and Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo in Goliad. Using church records and other historical accounts, as well as old photographs, drawings, and paintings, Quirarte describes the mission churches and related buildings, their decorated surfaces, and the (now missing) altarpieces, whose iconography he extensively analyzes. He sets his material within the context of the mission era in Texas and the Southwest, so that the book also serves as a general introduction to the Spanish missionary program and to Indian life in Texas.
Author | : Todd Hansen |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780811700603 |
If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
Author | : Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Alamo Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Alamo Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Alamo (San Antonio, Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles M. Haecker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Battlefields |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lee M. Panich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 697 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000403610 |
The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to examine how archaeology can highlight the myriad ways that Indigenous people have negotiated colonial systems from the fifteenth century through to today. The contributions offer a comprehensive look at where the archaeology of colonialism has been and where it is heading. Geographically diverse case studies highlight longstanding theoretical and methodological issues as well as emerging topics in the field. The organization of chapters by key issues and topics, rather than by geography, fosters exploration of the commonalities and contrasts between historical contingencies and scholarly interpretations. Throughout the volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors grapple with the continued colonial nature of archaeology and highlight Native perspectives on the potential of using archaeology to remember and tell colonial histories. This volume is the ideal starting point for students interested in how archaeology can illuminate Indigenous agency in colonial settings. Professionals, including academic and cultural resource management archaeologists, will find it a convenient reference for a range of topics related to the archaeology of colonialism in the Americas.