Prairie Imperialists - The Indian Country Origins of American Empire

Katharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal.

List of contents

Introduction. Gray Wolves for Guánica

PART I. INDIAN COUNTRY

Chapter 1. Coming to Indian Country

Chapter 2. Scouting

Chapter 3. Right Kind of White Men

Chapter 4. Prairie Imperialists

PART II. INDIAN COUNTRY ABROAD

Chapter 5. Spoil of the Spaniard

Chapter 6. The Buckskin Mantle

Chapter 7. Sultan of Sulu

PART III. THE LAST INDIAN WAR

Chapter 8. Spy Mission to Mexico: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Lee Bullard, 1911

Chapter 9. Washington and the Border: Brigadier General Hugh Lenox Scott, 1911-1916

Chapter 10. The Punitive Expedition: Brigadier General John J. Pershing, 1916

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Katharine Bjork is Professor of History at Hamline University and author of In the Circle of Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal.

Summary

In Prairie Imperialists, Katharine Bjork examines how the experiences of American Army officers on the domestic frontier shaped them for the later roles they played in U.S. expansion abroad in the Philippines, Cuba, and Mexico.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine Bjork
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780812251005
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5100-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous