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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul C Rosier |
| ISBN: | 9780674066236 0674066235 9780674036109 0674036107 9780674054523 0674054520 |
| OCLC Number: | 806495184 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2009. |
| Awards: | Winner of Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2009 Nominated for Ellis W. Hawley Prize 2010 Nominated for OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award 2010 Nominated for Bancroft Prize 2010 Nominated for J. David Greenstone Book Prize 2010 Nominated for John Hope Franklin Publication Prize 2010 Nominated for Albert J. Beveridge Award 2010 Nominated for Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize 2010 |
| Description: | 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Prologue: An empire for liberty -- Westward the course of empire -- The defense of the reservation -- World War II battlegrounds -- The Cold War on the Indian frontier -- Nation building at home and abroad -- The last Indian war -- Epilogue: Indian country in the twenty-first century. |
| Responsibility: | Paul C. Rosier. |
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By putting Indian affairs in a broader, international context he does the field a great service. -- Joy Porter * Journal of American Studies * A fascinating study documenting how federal American Indian policies intersected with national and international issues...Although other historians have written about specific eras in which this intersection occurred, Rosier's intriguing and sweeping study adds much to the literature. -- Laurence M. Hauptman * Journal of American History * Serving Their Country presents a compelling argument...Rosier has produced an important book that will provide scholars with much to engage, discuss, and debate. -- Daniel M. Cobb * American Historical Review * Fascinating...This is an important book, certain to generate considerable discussion. -- Brian Hosmer * Pacific Historical Review * In this extensively researched and well-documented study, Rosier examines modern Native American political history within an international context. -- Deborah Dawson * Booklist * This pathbreaking book offers a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Indian politics, patriotism, and tribalism by tracking important intersections between domestic and international affairs. The Cold War and global colonization movements emboldened Native Americans to demand their rights. Simultaneously, events required them to defend their homelands from enemies both within and without the country. To be Indian and American poses no contradiction, as Rosier so wisely points out, if the nation lives up to its ideals and its treaty obligations. -- Sherry L. Smith, author of <i>Reimagining Indians</i> A superb, innovative book. The story of Native Americans in the Cold War is without doubt one of the most important in the relationship between race and foreign affairs, and Rosier is the first to tell it in full. Impressively researched and engagingly written, this book fills a major gap in the literature and will have widespread appeal. -- Thomas Borstelmann, author of <i>The Cold War and the Color Line</i> Read more...
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- Indians of North America -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1934-
- Patriotism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Democracy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Citizenship -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Imperialism -- History.
- United States -- Territorial expansion.
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
- Citizenship.
- Democracy.
- Imperialism.
- Indians of North America -- Government relations.
- Indians of North America -- Politics and government.
- Patriotism.
- Race relations -- Political aspects.
- Territorial expansion.
- United States.
