A vivid protrayal of Europe's internal complexity. Go from the western promontories of Ireland to the Russian steppes, from the Greek isles to Iceland.. The text is topiclal in approach and covers all aspects of European life, including religion, demography, climate, industry and more.

The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography

History

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G.

Jordan, Terry G.

Europe

Harpercollins College Div

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook has been extensively revised to reflect the sweeping changes the past decade has brought to Europe and to incorporate new research in the field. Hailed for its creativity and intellectual depth, the book for the first time combines lead author Terry Jordan-Bychkov's decades of first-hand experience in Western and Central Europe with Bella Bychkova Jordan's expertise on European Russia to provide a comprehensive view of the region as a whole.The authors employ a humanistic geographical approach that is ideally suited to facilitate understanding of this ancient, complex culture. Their topical organization, including environment, religion, language, geogenetics, demography, geopolitics, industry, and urban and rural life, offers students a holistic understanding of the diverse European culture area. The final chapter offers a fitting capstone with its unique regional classification that pulls together all the strands of the narrative.The European Culture Area is the text of choice for courses on the geography of Europe.

German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (Texas Classics)

Business & Money

Economics

University of Texas Press

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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture

Americas

Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled. His findings both support the notion of ethnic distinctiveness and reveal the extent to which German Texans adopted the farming techniques of their Southern Anglo neighbors.

Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.

Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy

Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.

Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)

Examines the development of the cattle ranching culture of Texas during the nineteenth century and discusses the influence of South Carolina on the culture

Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching

Univ of Nebraska Pr

This award-winning book offers an invaluable synthesis that is essential reading for anyone interested in the cattle-ranching traditions in North America. In this revisionist study, historical geographer Jordan reinterprets cattle ranching in the Old World and New, challenging the notion that western cattle culture derived principally from Texas. Jordan begins by looking at Old World stock-raising patterns of the British, Spanish, and North Africans and traces how these practices merged in the Caribbean and were brought into Mexico. He also shows how in the eighteenth and nineteenth century cattle-raising found its way to the Eastern Seaboard, the South and Midwest of the present United States, and into California.

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier)

Univ of New Mexico Pr

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The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography

The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography

German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (Texas Classics)

Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture

German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (Texas Classics)

Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy

Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture

Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)

Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching

North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier)