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A bad peace and a good war : Spain and the Mescalero Apache uprising of 1795-1799 / Mark Santiago.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Santiago, Mark, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mescalero Indians--Wars.
- Mescalero Indians.
- Indians of North America--Wars--1750-1815.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Wars.
- Nava, Pedro de--Military leadership.
- Nava, Pedro de.
- Apache Indians--Wars.
- Apache Indians.
- Indians of North America--Wars--Southwest, New.
- History.
- Ethnic relations.
- War.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Mexico.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810--Ethnic relations.
- Mexican-American Border Region--History, Military--18th century.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- North America--Mexican-American Border Region.
- New Southwest.
- Genre:
- History.
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Examines the antecedents, course, and consequences of one of the most sustained, widespread, and bloody conflicts between Spaniards and Mescalero Apaches during the eighteenth century, challenging the standard claim that from 1790 to 1810 there was general peace along the northern frontier as both peoples reached a mutual accommodation as summarized in the maxim, 'a bad peace was better than a good war'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A general irruption
- Origins of conflict
- War, peace, war
- Between two fires
- Forging a bad peace
- Threats to fragile peace
- Sparking the fire
- Blood and suffering
- The cruel season
- War in their own lands
- Invasions real and imagined
- The calamities of war
- Chasing the shadow of peace
- The turns of history.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780806161556
- 0806161558
- OCLC:
- 1049577245
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