Imperial Texas: An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography

Imperial Texas examines the development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state. In this study in cultural geography set into a historical framework, D. W. Meinig, professor of geography at Syracuse University, discusses the “various peoples of Texas, who they are, where they came from, where they settled, and how they are proportioned one to another from place to place.”