Violence over the land : Indians and empires in the early American West / Ned Blackhawk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackhawk, Ned

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Great Basin--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Wars--Great Basin.

Indians of North America--Wars.

History.

Great Basin--History.

Great Basin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California, Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history.

Contents:

Introduction: the indigenous body in pain

Spanish-Ute relations to 1750

The making of the new Mexican-Ute borderlands

The enduring Spanish-Ute alliance

Crisis in the new Mexican-Ute borderlands

Great Basin Indians in the era of Lewis and Clark

Colorado Utes and the traumatic storms of expansion

Utah's Indians and the crisis of Mormon settlement

Epilogue: born on the Fourth of July, or Narrating Nevadan Indian histories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-357) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the land.

ISBN:

9780674020993

0674020995

Publisher Number:

99988101703

9780674022904

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.