Ebook {Epub PDF} War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War by Brian DeLay

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 /5(52). by Brian DeLay. Mr. DeLay, Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, is the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War ().  · War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. by Brian DeLay, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., , $ In December , when Mexico still claimed a large portion of the North American West, Comanches descended from the Texas plains onto the ranches and haciendas south of the Rio bltadwin.ru: Stephen Mauro.

2. Brian De Lay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the US-Mexican War (New Haven: Yale University Press, ); Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (New Haven: Yale University Press, ); James Brooks, Captives. Brian DeLay. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War. New Haven: Yale University Press, xxi + pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $ 7KLV LV D ERRN DERXW QRQ VWDWH DFWRUV VKDSLQJ WKH RXWFRPH RI D FRQÁLFW EH-tween nation-states. Long before the U.S. declared war on Mexico. "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War" by Brian DeLay is a masterpiece. Overused term, I know, but I really mean it. A true magnum opus. Scholarly, well-written and, most importantly, honest and real.

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U. S. -Mexican War The Lamar Series in Western History: Author: Brian DeLay: Edition: unabridged: Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN. "Brian DeLay offers an important reassessment of not only the U.S.-Mexican war but also the history of American expansion more broadly DeLay's War of a Thousand Deserts beautifully narrates the under-told tale of how Native Americans powerfully determined the history of U.S. expansion into Mexico."—Ned Blackhawk, The Journal of Military History. 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 new narrative of the era when the.