On The Border
An Environmental History Of San Antonio
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780822941637
Pub Date: 25 Oct 2001
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
Description:
Over the past 300 years, settlement patterns, geography, and climate have greatly affected the ecology of the south Texas landscape. Drawing on a variety of interests and perspectives, the contributors to On the Border probe these evolving relationships in and around San Antonio, the country's ninth-largest city.Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers required open expanses of land for agriculture and ranching, displacing indigenous inhabitants.