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Wars for Empire - Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (Hardcover)
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Wars for Empire - Apaches, the United States, and the Southwest Borderlands (Hardcover)
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After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest
Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following
decades, the United States government exerted control in the
Southwest by containing, destroying, segregating, and deporting
indigenous peoples - in essence conducting an extended military
campaign that culminated with the capture of Geronimo and the
forced removal of the Chiricahua Apaches in 1886. In this book,
Janne Lahti charts these encounters and the cultural differences
that shaped them. Wars for Empire offers a new perspective on the
conduct, duration, intensity, and ultimate outcome of one of
America's longest wars. Centuries of conflict with Spain and Mexico
had honed Apache war-making abilities and encouraged a culture
based in part on warrior values, from physical prowess and
specialized skills to a shared belief in individual effort. In
contrast, U.S. military forces lacked sufficient training and had
little public support. The splintered, protracted, and ferocious
warfare exposed the limitations of the U.S. military and of federal
Indian policies, challenging narratives of American supremacy in
the West. Lahti maps the ways in which these weaknesses undermined
the U.S. advance. He also stresses how various Apache groups
reacted differently to the U.S. invasion. Ultimately, new
technologies, the expansion of Euro-American settlements, and
decades of war and deception ended armed Apache resistance. By
comparing competing martial cultures and examining violence in the
Southwest, Wars for Empire provides a new understanding of critical
decades of American imperial expansion and a moment in the history
of settler colonialism with worldwide significance.
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