Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900

Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century.

Zusatztext 'The book is readable! features clear maps! and incorporates ideas from other parts of the world as well.'- Nebraska History Informationen zum Autor Bruce Vandervort is Professor of Modern European and African History at the Virginia Military Institute, USA. He is editor of The Journal of Military History and author of Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 (1998). Klappentext Drawing on anthropology and ethnohisotry as well as the 'new military history' Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatan during the nineteenth century. Fully illustrated with sixteen maps, detailing key Indian settlements and crucial battles, Bruce Vandervort rescues the New World Indian Wars from their exclusion from mainstream military history, and reveals how they are an integral part of global history. Providing a thorough examination of the strategies and tactics of resistance employed by Indian peoples of the USA, Vandervort contrasts practices of warfare with the Metis (the French Canadian-Indian peoples), their Canadian Indian allies, and the Yaqui and Mayan Indians of Mexico and Yucatan. Zusammenfassung Fully illustrated, this unique and fascinating study sheds new light on familiar events. Drawing on anthropology and ethnohistory as well as the 'new military history', this book interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatán during the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance, 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico, 1821-76 7. War on the Plains, 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria, 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies, 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato, 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index ...

'The book is readable, features clear maps, and incorporates ideas from other parts of the world as well.' Nebraska History

Autorentext
Bruce Vandervort is Professor of Modern European and African History at the Virginia Military Institute, USA. He is editor of The Journal of Military History and author of Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 (1998).

Klappentext
Drawing on anthropology and ethnohisotry as well as the 'new military history' Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatan during the nineteenth century. Fully illustrated with sixteen maps, detailing key Indian settlements and crucial battles, Bruce Vandervort rescues the New World Indian Wars from their exclusion from mainstream military history, and reveals how they are an integral part of global history.
Providing a thorough examination of the strategies and tactics of resistance employed by Indian peoples of the USA, Vandervort contrasts practices of warfare with the Metis (the French Canadian-Indian peoples), their Canadian Indian allies, and the Yaqui and Mayan Indians of Mexico and Yucatan.


Inhalt
List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Worlds in Motion 2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars 3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths 4. Chiefs and Warriors Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation 5. The Great Clearance, 1815-48 6. Indian Wars in Mexico, 1821-76 7. War on the Plains, 1848-77 8. Conquest of Apacheria, 1860-86 9. War on the Canadian Prairies, 1870-85 10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato, 1876-1900 11. The Long Shadow Notes Bibliography Index

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