Violence over the Land : : Indians and Empires in the Early American West /

Violence over the Land : : Indians and Empires in the Early American West / / Ned Blackhawk.

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and...

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Blackhawk, Ned,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: The Indigenous Body in Pain
  • ONE. Spanish-Ute Relations to 1750
  • TWO. The Making of the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
  • THREE. The Enduring Spanish-Ute Alliance
  • FOUR. Crisis in the New Mexican–Ute Borderlands
  • FIVE. Great Basin Indians in the Era of Lewis and Clark
  • SIX. Colorado Utes and the Traumatic Storms of Expansion
  • SEVEN. Utah’s Indians and the Crisis of Mormon Settlement
  • Epilogue: Born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian Histories
  • Chronology
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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