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War of a thousand deserts : Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War /

"Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, War of a Thousand Deserts recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeLay, Brian, 1971- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008.
Colección:Lamar series in western history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, War of a Thousand Deserts recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory."--Jacket
Notas:"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 473 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-455) and index.
ISBN:9780300150421
0300150423
1282351974
9781282351974
1282088688
9781282088689