| CORPUS CHRISTI —British historian Eric Hobsbaum calls the 20th Century the short century. He reckons it began in 1914 with the start of World War I and ended with the fall of communism in 1991. By that measure, Corpus Christi really had a short 19th century, from its founding in 1839 to the collapse of the Ropes boom in 1893. In actual terms, that’s little more than half a century, but a lot of ... |
