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Author Lahti, Janne

Title Cultural Construction of Empire : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico
Published Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages)
Contents Cover; Untitled; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands; 1. From Apacheria to American Southwest; 2. Journey to the "Outside"; 3. The Place Facing Colonialism; 4. Apaches in White Army Minds; 5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space; 6. Manual Labor and Leisure; 7. Colonized Labor; Conclusion: An Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest. Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject United States. Army -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
Subject Frontier and pioneer life -- Arizona
Frontier and pioneer life -- New Mexico
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Arizona -- History -- 19th century
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
Military dependents -- Arizona -- History -- 19th century
Military dependents -- New Mexico -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Military -- Pictorial.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Frontier and pioneer life
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Military dependents
SUBJECT Arizona -- History, Military -- 19th century
New Mexico -- History, Military -- 19th century
Subject Arizona
New Mexico
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803244580
0803244584