Cultural Construction of Empire - The U.s. Army in Arizona and New Mexico

Informationen zum Autor Janne Lahti is an Academy of Finland's postdoctoral researcher in general history at the University of Helsinki. Klappentext Janne Lahti is an Academy of Finland¿s postdoctoral researcher in general history at the University of Helsinki. Zusammenfassung From 1866 through 1886! the US 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands1. From Apacheria to American Southwest2. Journey to the "Outside"3. The Place Facing Colonialism4. Apaches in White Army Minds5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space6. Manual Labor and Leisure7. Colonized LaborConclusion: An EmpireNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Janne Lahti, Lahti Janne
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780803232525
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3252-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration