387 (citing an 1860 proclamation exhorting Mexican men to “create a force of 1,000 men” to fight the “savage” Navajos). 150. White, “It's Your Misfortune,” 100. 151. Rael-Gálvez, “Identifying Captivity,” 292. Oddly, Griffin's ...
Watch the Author Interview on KNME In both the historic record and the popular imagination, the story of nineteenth-century westward expansion in America has been characterized by notions of annexation rather than colonialism, of opening ...
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A chronicle of the 1840s traces the monumental expansion of the American territories against a backdrop of pre-Civil War tensions, citing such contributing factors as the gold rush, the founding...
This book examines the interaction of immigrants and the native-born in nine widely varying locales, including Richmond, VA, St. Louis, West Palm Beach, FL, Tacoma, WA, Garden City, KS, Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, and New York City.