ISBN
9780806157429
Price
$35.95
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Abstract
Wars for Empire employs the framework of settler colonialism to argue that war and violence in the American Southwest unfolded as expressions of culture and convention. For the Apache people, existing in numerous bands dispersed over a wide area from western Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, to West Texas, raiding and warfare met the needs of subsistence and provided a mechanism to obtain power and status in competition with other borderland peoples. For the United States, the war functioned as an expression of white, Anglo-Saxon dominance far out of proportion to the benefits accruing from the conquest of this remote, foreboding region.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.20.2.18
Recommended Citation
Metcalf, Warren
(2018)
"Wars for Empire: Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 20
:
Iss.
2
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.20.2.18
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol20/iss2/18
