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The Comanche empire

Author: Pekka Hämäläinen; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Series: Lamar series in western history.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Discusses the power wielded by the Comanches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the southern Great Plains, the Southwest, and northern Mexico, covering their military ability, political dominance, and commercial and cultural influence as they resisted European colonization until their defeat in 1875.
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Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
Comanche empire.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)604039789
Online version:
Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-
Comanche empire.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008
(OCoLC)608863302
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Pekka Hämäläinen; William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.
ISBN: 9780300126549 0300126549 9780300151176 0300151179
OCLC Number: 176648822
Notes: "Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Awards: Bancroft Prize in American History, 2009; Merle Curti Award, 2009; Kate Broocks Bates Award, 2008; Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2008.
Description: viii, 500 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Reversed colonialism --
Conquest --
New order --
The embrace --
The empire of the Plains --
Greater Comanchería --
Children of the Sun --
Hunger --
Collapse --
Conclusion: The shape of power.
Series Title: Lamar series in western history.
Responsibility: Pekka Hämäläinen.
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Tells the lost story of the Comanches. This book shows how the Comanches built their empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875.  Read more...

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"An important read for any researcher interested in Indigenous North America, the West, or colonization."--James O'Neill Spady, "Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"--James O'Neill Spady Read more...

 
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