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Online-Ressource (359 p)
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Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780803232525
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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. By differentiating themsel
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Cover; Untitled; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands; 1. From Apacheria to American Southwest; 2. Journey to the "Outside"; 3. The Place Facing Colonialism; 4. Apaches in White Army Minds; 5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space; 6. Manual Labor and Leisure; 7. Colonized Labor; Conclusion: An Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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ISBN 9780803244580
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ISBN 9780803232525
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cultural Construction of Empire : The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico
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Englisch
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