Indian Wars Everywhere

Author : Stefan Aune
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : America
ISBN : 9780520395404

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Indian Wars Everywhere by Stefan Aune Pdf

References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation "Geronimo" used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States' formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions, imaginations, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire, from the "savage wars" of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents, Indian Wars Everywhere considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.

Author : Stefan Aune
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520395411

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Indian Wars Everywhere by Stefan Aune Pdf

References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation “Geronimo” used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine that influences US military violence. The United States’ formative acts of colonial violence persist in the actions, imaginations, and stories that have facilitated the spread of American empire, from the “savage wars” of the nineteenth century to the counterinsurgencies of the Global War on Terror. Ranging across centuries and continents, Indian Wars Everywhere considers what it means for the conquest of Native peoples to be deemed a success that can be used as a blueprint for modern warfare.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307958051

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The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.

Author : Robert Leckie
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0785821007

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A Few Acres of Snow by Robert Leckie Pdf

This expansive book covers seven tumultuous decades of pre-Revolutionary American history.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811749329

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars: 1865-1890 by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. Volume III: Conquering the Southern Plains offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the struggle for the Southern Plains and Texas as may be gathered under one cover. It contains accounts from such notable military participants as George Armstrong Custer, Nelson A. Miles, Wesley Merritt, and Frederick W. Benteen.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0811700194

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian wars : 1865 - 1890. 3. Conquering the Southern Plains by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Author : H.M. Sylvester
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9785878203258

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Indian Wars of New England by H.M. Sylvester Pdf

Volume 3. Queen Anne's War. Lovewell's War. Governor Shirley's War. French and Indian War.

Author : Bill O'Reilly,Martin Dugard
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627797030

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Killing Crazy Horse by Bill O'Reilly,Martin Dugard Pdf

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country’s founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson’s brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe’s epic “sea to shining sea” policy, to President Martin Van Buren’s cruel enforcement of a “treaty” that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be called the Trail of Tears. O’Reilly and Dugard take readers behind the legends to reveal never-before-told historical moments in the fascinating creation story of America. This fast-paced, wild ride through the American frontier will shock readers and impart unexpected lessons that reverberate to this day.

Author : Len Travers
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421418056

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Hodges' Scout by Len Travers Pdf

"Many Americans probably know the French and Indian War by way of the film adaptation (1992) of Cooper's Last of the Mohicans. In it Michael Mann directs the young Daniel Day-Lewis and, in parts, succeeds in capturing the strange solitude of warring in endless forest and the sudden ferocity of battle during this first truly world war. Writing an unusual work of art and history, Len Travers here excavates the story of a colonial-American 'lost patrol' during that war, turning musty documents into a gripping tale that could reach well beyond an academic readership. Fifty provinical soldiers left the fringes of settlement in fall, 1756, aiming to safeguard the upper reaches of New York. Within days, near Lake George, native warriors, allies of the French, jumped them. Surprised and overwhelmed, the colonists suffered death or capture. The fifteen surviviors lived for years as prisoners of their native captors. Eventually a few of them managed to work their back to their villages and families, living to tell their stories. Travers's remarkable research brings human experiences alive, giving us a rare, full color view of the French and Indian War. These personal accounts throw light on the motives, means, and methods of both colonists and Natives at war in the American wilderness. They also speak to the nature of war itself"--

Author : David Kieran,Edwin A. Martini
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813584324

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At War by David Kieran,Edwin A. Martini Pdf

The country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial and gendered identities to debates over environmental and immigration policy. Warfare and the military are ubiquitous in popular culture. At War offers short, accessible essays addressing the central issues in the new military history—ranging from diplomacy and the history of imperialism to the environmental issues that war raises and the ways that war shapes and is shaped by discourses of identity, to questions of who serves in the U.S. military and why and how U.S. wars have been represented in the media and in popular culture.

Author : David J. Silverman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674974746

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Thundersticks by David J. Silverman Pdf

David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another, as arms races erupted across North America.

Author : Ian Frazier
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429936170

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On the Rez by Ian Frazier Pdf

A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar. In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center-the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands of South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier drives around "the rez" with Le War Lance and other Oglalas as they tell stories, visit relatives, go to powwows and rodeos and package stores, and try to find parts to fix one or another of their on-the-verge-of-working cars. On the Rez considers Indian ideas of freedom and community and equality that are basic to how we view ourselves. Most of all, he examines the Indian idea of heroism-its suffering and its pulse-quickening, public-spirited glory. On the Rez portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has shaped our American identity.

Author : David Vine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520385689

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The United States of War by David Vine Pdf

2020 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, History A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global U.S. empire. Drawing on historical and firsthand anthropological research in fourteen countries and territories, The United States of War demonstrates how U.S. leaders across generations have locked the United States in a self-perpetuating system of permanent war by constructing the world’s largest-ever collection of foreign military bases—a global matrix that has made offensive interventionist wars more likely. Beyond exposing the profit-making desires, political interests, racism, and toxic masculinity underlying the country’s relationship to war and empire, The United States of War shows how the long history of U.S. military expansion shapes our daily lives, from today’s multi-trillion–dollar wars to the pervasiveness of violence and militarism in everyday U.S. life. The book concludes by confronting the catastrophic toll of American wars—which have left millions dead, wounded, and displaced—while offering proposals for how we can end the fighting.

Author : Iván Chaar López
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478059035

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The Cybernetic Border by Iván Chaar López Pdf

In The Cybernetic Border, Iván Chaar López argues that the settler US nation requires the production and targeting of a racialized enemy that threatens the empire. The cybernetic border is organized through practices of data capture, storage, processing, circulation, and communication that police bodies and constitute the nation as a bounded, territorial space. Chaar López historicizes the US government’s use of border enforcement technologies on Mexicans, Arabs, and Muslims from the mid-twentieth century to the present, showing how data systems are presented as solutions to unauthorized border crossing. Contrary to enduring fantasies of the purported neutrality of drones, smart walls, artificial intelligence, and biometric technologies, the cybernetic border represents the consolidation of calculation and automation in the exercise of racialized violence. Chaar López draws on corporate, military, and government records, promotional documents and films, technical reports, news reporting, surveillance footage, and activist and artist practices. These materials reveal how logics of enmity are embedded into information infrastructures that shape border control and modern sovereignty.

Author : Peter Cozzens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89081284747

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains by Peter Cozzens Pdf

Third in five-volume series recreates the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, noncombatants, and Native Americans.