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Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xxi, 473 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
3) Geronimo
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The masterful and poignant story of three African-American families who journeyed west after emancipation, by an award-winning scholar and descendant of the migrants. Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyond the United States, Field traces...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's...
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