Civil War in the Southwest Borderlands, 1861-1867
Autor Andrew E. Masichen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 feb 2018
Along the border, Masich argues, the Civil War played out as a collision between three warrior cultures. Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos brought their own weapons and tactics to the struggle, but they also shared many traditions. Before the war, the three groups engaged one another in cycles of raid and reprisal involving the taking of livestock and human captives, reflecting a peculiar mixture of conflict and interdependence.
When U.S. regular troops were withdrawn in 1861 to fight in the East, the resulting power vacuum led to unprecedented violence in the West. Indians fought Indians, Hispanos battled Hispanos, and Anglos vied for control of the Southwest, while each group sought allies in conflicts related only indirectly to the secession crisis. When Union and Confederate forces invaded the Southwest, Anglo soldiers, Hispanos, and sedentary Indian tribes forged alliances that allowed them to collectively wage a relentless war on Apaches, Comanches, and Navajos. Mexico's civil war and European intervention served only to enlarge the conflict in the borderlands. When the fighting subsided, a new power hierarchy had emerged and relations between the region's inhabitants, and their nations, forever changed.
Masich's perspective on borderlands history offers a single, cohesive framework for understanding this power shift while demonstrating the importance of transnational and multicultural views of the American Civil War and the Southwest Borderlands.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780806160962
ISBN-10: 0806160969
Pagini: 466
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10: 0806160969
Pagini: 466
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: University of Oklahoma Press
Notă biografică
Andrew E. Masich is President and CEO of the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John Heinz History Center and teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He is author of The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865 and coauthor of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat and Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent.
Descriere
Still the least-understood theatre of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the US-Mexico border. In this volume, Andrew Masich analyses these conflicts as interconnected civil wars.