War of a thousand deserts : Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War / Brian DeLay.
"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 polit...
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Language: | English |
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New Haven : [Dallas, Tex.] :
Yale University Press ; Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University,
[2008], ©2008.
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Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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Physical Description: | xxi, 473 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- A note on names
- Introduction : A little door
- Prologue : Easy stories
- Pt. 1. NEIGHBORS. Danger and community
- Buffalo-hide quiver
- Plunder and partners
- The politics of vengeance
- Pt. 2. NATIONS. Indians don't unmake presidents
- Barbarians and dearer enemies
- An eminently national war?
- How to make a desert smile
- Pt. 3. CONVERGENCE. A trophy of a new kind in war
- Polk's blessing
- Epilogue : Articel 11
- Appendix : Data on Comanche-Mexican violence, 1831-48
- Introduction to the data
- Table and figures
- Data.