About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126549ISBN:0300126549
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2009-05-19
ISBN-13:9780300151176ISBN:0300151179
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126549ISBN:0300126549
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-05-28
ISBN-13:9780300126549ISBN:0300126549
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126549ISBN:0300126549
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780300151176ISBN:0300151179
Description: New. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire built by Comanche Indians rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plain... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780300126549ISBN:0300126549
Description: This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. Hamalainen challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion, and offers a new model in Native-European relations. read more
"Makes a good case that it was an empire. clear explication, sourced, for economics, politics, diplomacy, a little on the religion, population, technology. stunning how they devastated northern mexico for decades, how New Mexico bought peace, how white and native american trading groups prospered or didn't based on the commanche trade. gives me some more insight into how other horse and war technology empires rose and fell, like various larger asian migratory type empires such as the khazars, various turkish and mongol, etc."
"This is brilliant history.The author presents a very different view of the Comanche nation than that of the traditional warrior, hunter-gather notion that has dominated the Western view. While perhaps stretching the term "empire" a bit, Hamalainen shows the Comanches as an adaptable and sophisticated society that successfully dominated the Southwest for over 150 years. Moving out of the Rockies at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Comanches quickly pushed out competing tribes, most especially the Apache, to create a wide ranging and powerful, yet mobile power structure. By mid-century, they had become so dominant that they were able to stymie and then push back against Spanish North America. It was only after an ecological crash caused by over-harvesting of the bison and the determined might of the rapidly industrializing and growing US that their dominance was finally ended.
The book was very well written, persuasive and compelling. A first rate revisionist history."
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