Indian Wars of Canada, Mexico and the United States, 1812-1900

ISBN-13: 9780415224710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 360 str.

Bruce Vandervort

Opis

Drawing on anthropology and ethnohisotry as well as the 'new military history' Indian Wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900 interprets and compares the way Indians and European Americans waged wars in Canada, Mexico, the USA and Yucatan during the nineteenth century. Fully illustrated with sixteen maps, detailing key Indian settlements and crucial battles, Bruce Vandervort rescues the New World Indian Wars from their exclusion from mainstream military history, and reveals how they are an integral part of global history.
Providing a thorough examination of the strategies and tactics of resistance employed by Indian peoples of the USA, Vandervort contrasts practices of warfare with the Metis (the French Canadian-Indian peoples), their Canadian Indian allies, and the Yaqui and Mayan Indians of Mexico and Yucatan.

Recenzje

'The book is readable, features clear maps, and incorporates ideas from other parts of the world as well.' –  Nebraska History

Spis treści

List of Maps  Preface  Introduction  1. Worlds in Motion  2. The New World in a Century of Small Wars  3. Worldviews and Fighting Faiths  4. Chiefs and Warriors  Prologue to Narrative: From Peripheral Flux to National Consolidation  5. The Great Clearance, 1815-48  6. Indian Wars in Mexico, 1821-76  7. War on the Plains, 1848-77  8. Conquest of Apacheria, 1860-86  9. War on the Canadian Prairies, 1870-85  10. Indian Wars of the Porfiriato, 1876-1900  11. The Long Shadow  Notes  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Bruce Vandervort is Professor of Modern European and African History at the Virginia Military Institute, USA. He is editor of The Journal of Military History and author of Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 (1998).