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Cultural Construction of Empire : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico.

From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lahti, Janne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Untitled; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands; 1. From Apacheria to American Southwest; 2. Journey to the "Outside"; 3. The Place Facing Colonialism; 4. Apaches in White Army Minds; 5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space; 6. Manual Labor and Leisure; 7. Colonized Labor; Conclusion: An Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index.