Cultural construction of empire : the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico / Janne Lahti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lahti, Janne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Arizona.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--New Mexico.

Imperialism--Social aspects--Arizona--History--19th century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Social aspects--New Mexico--History--19th century.

Military dependents--Arizona--History--19th century.

Military dependents.

Military dependents--New Mexico--History--19th century.

Arizona--History, Military--19th century.

Arizona.

New Mexico--History, Military--19th century.

New Mexico.

United States. Army--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest.Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents

Contents:

Introduction : a colonizer community in the borderlands

From Apacheria to American Southwest

Journey to the "outside"

The place facing colonialism

Apaches in white army minds

Army village as middle-class living space

Manual labor and leisure

Colonized labor

Conclusion : an empire.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283714273

1283714272

9780803244580

0803244584

OCLC:

818867791