04906nam 2200829 a 450 991077808630332120230426163839.097866123519761-282-35197-40-300-15042-31-282-08868-897866120886819780300150421 (electronic book)10.12987/9780300150421(CKB)1000000000764789(StDuBDS)AH24486759(SSID)ssj0000268989(PQKBManifestationID)11217175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268989(PQKBWorkID)10243216(PQKB)10567834(MiAaPQ)EBC3420505(DE-B1597)485411(OCoLC)402467172(DE-B1597)9780300150421(MiAaPQ)EBC5292513(Au-PeEL)EBL3420505(CaPaEBR)ebr10348399(CaONFJC)MIL235197(OCoLC)923593993(Au-PeEL)EBL5292513(CaONFJC)MIL208868(OCoLC)1028938181(EXLCZ)99100000000076478920080326d2008 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontent.crdamedia.crrdacarrier.War of a thousand deserts Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War /Brian DeLayNew Haven Yale University Press ;[Dallas, TX] Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist Universityc20081 online resource (xxii, 473 pages) illustrations, mapsThe Lamar series in western history0-300-11932-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-455) and index.Introduction -- Prologue. Easy stories -- Part One. Neighbours -- 1. Danger and community -- 2. Buffalo-hide quiver -- 3. Plunder and partners -- 4. The politics of pengeance -- Part Two. Nations -- 5. Indians don't unmake presidents -- 6. Barbarians and dearer enemies -- 7. An eminently national war? -- 8. How to make a desert smile -- Part Three. Convergence -- 9. A trophy of a new kind in war -- 10. Polk's blessing -- Epilogue. Article 11 -- Appendix. Data on Comanche-Mexican violence, 1831-48 -- Introduction to the data -- Table and figures -- Data -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico's economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made "deserts" in place of thriving settlements. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory while leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to resist the American invasion and subsequent occupation. 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.--Provided by publisher.Lamar series in western history.Mexican War, 1846-1848IndiansMexican War, 1846-1848Mexican-American Border RegionMexican War, 1846-1848Mexico, NorthIndians of North AmericaWarsMexican-American Border RegionIndians of North AmericaWarsMexico, NorthMexican-American Border RegionHistory, Military19th centuryMexico, NorthHistory, Military19th centuryMexican-American Border RegionEthnic relationsHistory19th centuryMexico, NorthEthnic relationsHistory19th centuryMexican War, 1846-1848Indians.Mexican War, 1846-1848Mexican War, 1846-1848Indians of North AmericaWarsIndians of North AmericaWars972/.100497DeLay Brian1971-,1561221MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778086303321War of a thousand deserts3827753UNINA