03189nam 2200697Ia 450 991080689590332120230126205913.01-283-71427-20-8032-4458-4(CKB)2670000000276231(EBL)1050156(OCoLC)818867791(SSID)ssj0000755410(PQKBManifestationID)11966192(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755410(PQKBWorkID)10729916(PQKB)10057443(MiAaPQ)EBC1050156(OCoLC)815823805(MdBmJHUP)muse19580(Au-PeEL)EBL1050156(CaPaEBR)ebr10618542(CaONFJC)MIL402677(EXLCZ)99267000000027623120121101d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCultural construction of empire the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico /Janne LahtiLincoln University of Nebraska Pressc20121 online resource (359 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8032-3252-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 dependentsFrontier and pioneer lifeArizonaFrontier and pioneer lifeNew MexicoImperialismSocial aspectsArizonaHistory19th centuryImperialismSocial aspectsNew MexicoHistory19th centuryMilitary dependentsArizonaHistory19th centuryMilitary dependentsNew MexicoHistory19th centuryArizonaHistory, Military19th centuryNew MexicoHistory, Military19th centuryFrontier and pioneer lifeFrontier and pioneer lifeImperialismSocial aspectsHistoryImperialismSocial aspectsHistoryMilitary dependentsHistoryMilitary dependentsHistory355.009791Lahti Janne893246MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806895903321Cultural construction of empire3963300UNINA