War of a thousand deserts : Indian raids and the U.S.-Mexican War / / Brian DeLay

• Autore: DeLay Brian <1971-, >
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press; [Dallas, TX], : Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 473 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 972/.100497
• Soggetto topico: Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Indians; Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Mexico, North; Indians of North America - Wars - Mexican-American Border Region; Indians of North America - Wars - Mexico, North
• Soggetto geografico: Mexican-American Border Region History, Military 19th century; Mexico, North History, Military 19th century; Mexican-American Border Region Ethnic relations History 19th century; Mexico, North Ethnic relations History 19th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-455) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.--
• Titolo autorizzato: War of a thousand deserts
• ISBN: 9786612351976; 1-282-35197-4; 0-300-15042-3; 1-282-08868-8; 9786612088681; 9780300150421 (electronic book)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778086303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lamar series in western history.