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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	DeLay, Brian, 1971- author.
Imprint:	New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xxi, 473 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	The Lamar series in western history Lamar series in western history.
Subject:	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. Ethnic relations. Indians. Indians of North America -- Wars. 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. North Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Electronic books. History. Military history.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11299779

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Other authors / contributors:	William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
ISBN:	9780300150421 0300150423 1282351974 9781282351974 1282088688 9781282088689 0300119321 9780300119329
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University." Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-455) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: DeLay, Brian, 1971- War of a thousand deserts. New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Univ. Press, ©2008 9780300119329 0300119321

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A little door
Prologue: Easy stories
PART 1. NEIGHBORS: 1. Danger and community ; 2. Buffalo-hide quiver ; 3. Plunder and partners ; 4. The politics of vengeance
PART 2. 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 3. CONVERGENCE: 9. A trophy of a new kind in war : 10. Polk's blessing
Epilogue: Article 11.