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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Katharine Bjork
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780812251005
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5100-5
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni