Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century.
Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century.
Bruce Vandervort is Professor of Modern European and African History at the Virginia Military Institute, USA. He is editor of The Journal of Military History and author of Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 (1998).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico 1821-76 7. War on the Plains 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index
List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance, 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico, 1821-76 7. War on the Plains, 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria, 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies, 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato, 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index
List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico 1821-76 7. War on the Plains 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index
List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance, 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico, 1821-76 7. War on the Plains, 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria, 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies, 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato, 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index
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'The book is readable, features clear maps, and incorporates ideas from other parts of the world as well.' - Nebraska History
'The book is readable, features clear maps, and incorporates ideas from other parts of the world as well.' - Nebraska History
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