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Author Kreneck, Thomas H.

Title Del Pueblo : a history of Houston's Hispanic community / Thomas H. Kreneck.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Edition Texas A & M University Press ed.
Description 1 online resource (xv, 160 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gulf Coast books ; no. 21
Gulf Coast books ; no. 21.
Note "New, revised edition."--Summary, CIP data view.
Original edition published by Houston International University, 1989.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- A peripheral Spanish imprint -- In the shadow of San Jacinto -- Establishing an urban presence, 1880-1910 -- La Colonia Mexicana in Houston, 1910-1929 -- Hard times and war, 1929-1945 -- Latin Americans in postwar Houston, 1946-1958 -- From Latin American to Chicano, 1958-1978 -- "Decade of the Hispanic," 1980s -- Toward the new millennium.
Summary Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston. However, in 1989, the first edition of Thomas H. Kreneck's Del Pueblo vividly captured the depth and breadth of Houston's Hispanic people, illustrating both the obstacles and the triumphs that characterized this vital community's rise to prominence during the twentieth century. This new, revised edition of Del Pueblo: A History of Hou.
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Subject Hispanic Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- Pictorial works.
Hispanic Americans.
Texas -- Houston.
History.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Hispanic Americans -- Texas -- Houston -- History.
Houston (Tex.) -- History -- Pictorial works.
Houston (Tex.) -- History.
Houston (Tex.) -- Pictorial works.
Indexed Term Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Other Form: Print version: Kreneck, Thomas H. Del Pueblo. Texas A & M University Press ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2012 9781603446921 (DLC) 2011047422 (OCoLC)765485049
ISBN 9781603447355 (electronic book)
1603447350 (electronic book)
9781603446921
1603446923