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UNINA9910971043003321 |
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Autore |
Lahti Janne |
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Titolo |
Cultural construction of empire : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico / / Janne Lahti |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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9781283714273 |
1283714272 |
9780803244580 |
0803244584 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (359 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Arizona History, Military 19th century |
New Mexico History, Military 19th century |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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, |
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