The Comanche empire /
Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
The Comanche empire / Pekka Hämäläinen. - New Haven, Yale University Press, ©2008 - viii, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - The Lamar series in western history . - Lamar series in western history. .
"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-474) and index.
Introduction: Reversed colonialism -- Conquest -- New order -- The embrace -- The empire of the Plains -- Greater Comanchería -- Children of the Sun -- Hunger -- Collapse -- Conclusion: The shape of power.
Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
9780300126549 0300126549 9780300151176 0300151179
Yale Univ Pr, C/O Triliteral Llc 100 Maple Ridge Dr, Cumberland, RI, USA, 02864-1769, (401)6584226 SAN 631-8126
2007041809
Comanche Indians--History.
Comanche Indians--Government relations.
United States--History--19th century.
Mexico--History--To 1810.
E99.C85 / H27 2008
ARCH FRBC 978.004 H198C
The Comanche empire / Pekka Hämäläinen. - New Haven, Yale University Press, ©2008 - viii, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - The Lamar series in western history . - Lamar series in western history. .
"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-474) and index.
Introduction: Reversed colonialism -- Conquest -- New order -- The embrace -- The empire of the Plains -- Greater Comanchería -- Children of the Sun -- Hunger -- Collapse -- Conclusion: The shape of power.
Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
9780300126549 0300126549 9780300151176 0300151179
Yale Univ Pr, C/O Triliteral Llc 100 Maple Ridge Dr, Cumberland, RI, USA, 02864-1769, (401)6584226 SAN 631-8126
2007041809
Comanche Indians--History.
Comanche Indians--Government relations.
United States--History--19th century.
Mexico--History--To 1810.
E99.C85 / H27 2008
ARCH FRBC 978.004 H198C