Violence Over the Land - Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Informationen zum Autor Ned Blackhawk Klappentext In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples. Zusammenfassung In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin! Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain *1. Spanish--Ute Relations to 1750 *2. The Making of the New Mexican--Ute Borderlands *3. The Enduring Spanish--Ute Alliance *4. Crisis in the New Mexican--Ute Borderlands *5. Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark *6. Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion *7. Utah's Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement * Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July! or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories * Chronology * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

Product details

• Authors: Ned Blackhawk, Blackhawk Ned, Ned Blackhawk
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780674027206
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02720-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Expedition, History, Rio Grande, Navajo, Horses, Contact, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Santa Fe, Indigenous Peoples, Apache, narratives, Pueblo, Reservation, Frontier, Negotiations, Social and cultural history, Weapons, settlement, Displacement, History of the Americas, manifest destiny, FuR, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Massacre, Comanche, lewis and clark, mormons, abiquiu, homelands