Cultural construction of empire [[electronic resource] ] : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico / / Janne Lahti

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462198203321
• Autore: Lahti Janne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-283-71427-2; 0-8032-4458-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.009791
• Soggetti: Frontier and pioneer life - Arizona; Frontier and pioneer life - New Mexico; Imperialism - Social aspects - Arizona - History - 19th century; Imperialism - Social aspects - New Mexico - History - 19th century; Military dependents - Arizona - History - 19th century; Military dependents - New Mexico - History - 19th century; Electronic books.; Arizona History, Military 19th century; New Mexico History, Military 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : a colonizer community in the borderlands -- From Apacheria to American Southwest -- Journey to the "outside" -- The place facing colonialism -- Apaches in white army minds -- Army village as middle-class living space -- Manual labor and leisure -- Colonized labor -- Conclusion : an empire.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest.Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, ; and their dependents