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11 produkter
Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861
Häftad, 2014
254 kr
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In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army's perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region - newly …
Business of Killing Indians
Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America
Inbunden, 2025
361 kr
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How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and mutilate thousands of Indians throughout North …
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846-1865
Häftad, 2014
256 kr
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The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations.Then Mexican …
Coast-to-Coast Empire
Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
Inbunden, 2018
382 kr
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Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for …
Coast-to-Coast Empire
Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
Häftad, 2026
266 kr
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Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Häftad, 2021
339 kr
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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
Inbunden, 2017
1171 kr
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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Illusions of Empire
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Inbunden, 2021
641 kr
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Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era.William S. Kiser examines a fascinating …
Borderlands of Slavery
The Struggle Over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
E-bok, 2017
437 kr
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It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor-and …
Illusions of Empire
The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
E-bok, 2021
755 kr
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Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era.William S. Kiser examines a fascinating …
Turmoil on the Rio Grande
History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865
E-bok, 2011
323 kr
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The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations. When Mexican …
