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The surge of Texas metropolitan areas is a fascinating story that is not previously told. Yet it is essential for understanding both the state's history and its contemporary character. In The City in Texas, acclaimed historian David G. McComb chronicles the development of urban Texas from the Spanish conquest for this. Writing in energetic, sometimes funny and provocative prose, he describes how business and politics were the early motors of city progress, followed by post-Civil Warfare cattle shipping, oil finding, lumbering, and armed service needs. McComb emphasizes that the most transformative agent in city development was the railroad. This technology - accompanied by telegraphs that accelerated the get spread around of information and mechanical clocks that transformed concepts of your time - revolutionized transport, enforced corporate business, dictated town location, structured space and architecture, and inspired thought. McComb also thoroughly explores the post-World Warfare II progress of San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Value, Austin, and Houston as incubators for businesses, educational and social institutions, and healthcare centers.
