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The Comanche Empire (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in historical accounts.
This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. It is a story that challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new model for the history of colonial expansion, colonial frontiers, and Native-European relations in North America and elsewhere. Pekka Hämäläinen shows in vivid detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875. With extensive knowledge and deep insight, the author brings into clear relief the Comanches’ remarkable impact on the trajectory of history.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.004974572
EAN: 9780300126549
ISBN: 0300126549
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2008-05-28
Publisher: Yale University Press
Studio: Yale University Press
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Summary: the comanche empire
Comment: This book is great to look at but sadly i found the content disappointing.If the author had access to the Mexican records on the great Comanche raids that he states tore the heart out of northern Mexico during the 1840's why doesn't he give quotes?There is a far better review than mine of this book by Frank Mclynn in Literary Review ,his review being on line and the comments he makes are pertinent.
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Summary: Valuable Addition to the Field
Comment: This well-written and tightly argued work on the Comanche Indians and their relations with the Spanish, French, Americans and with other Native peoples might be called a foreign-policy history of the Comanche empire. The author's long-awaited book details how the Comanche made use of their physical and cultural environment to develop an empire that controlled much of the southern plains, dominated trade within the southern and central Great Plains and Southwest, shaped the development of Spanish and French colonies in the region, and eventually collapsed from internal pressures, environmental difficulties and U.S. military action.
General readers interested in a new way of thinking about the Comanche and the history of the Southwest will enjoy this readable work. Scholars too will find much of use, including copious and meticulous citations and a good index. I highly recommend this work.
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Summary: First Rate Endeavor
Comment: Bold, agressive, new scholarship that is the sort of real work historians ought to be engaged in. These are not the savages of the early 20th century or the tragic people of the 60s to the 80s - the Comanches of this work are as vivid, human, and powerful as any of the good imperial studies carried out on European, East Asian, or Central Asian civilizations. To call Hammalainen "revisionist" as a slur might be tempting for opponents of his point of view, but for those who understand the quality of this work compared to past discussions of the Comanche, "revisionist" is the greatest compiment it could get. A great effort from a young scholar: I can't wait to see what he produces next.
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