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  • Illusions of Empire

    The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Series series America in the Nineteenth Century
    Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era.William S. Kiser examines a fascinating series of events in which a disparate group of historical actors vied for power and control along the U ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Illusions of Empire

    The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Series series America in the Nineteenth Century
    Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. Southwest in the context of diplomacy, politics, economics, and military operations during the Civil War era.William S. Kiser examines a fascinating series of events in which a disparate group of historical actors vied for power and control along the U ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Borderlands of Slavery

    The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Series series America in the Nineteenth Century
    It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor—and Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Borderlands of Slavery

    The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Series series America in the Nineteenth Century
    It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage—in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of servitude, often lifelong, to a creditor—and Indian captivity, not only outlived the Civil War but prompted a new struggle to define freedom and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Dragoons in Apacheland

    Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861

    by William S. Kiser ...
    In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly acquired in the Mexican-American War—safe for Anglo settlers. In Dragoons in Apacheland, William S. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Coast-to-Coast Empire

    Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for competing influences determined to control the region.Previous histories have treated the Santa Fe trade, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Turmoil on the Rio Grande

    History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865

    by William S. Kiser ...
    Series Book 38 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
    The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations.When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Warlords Rising

    Confronting Violent Non-State Actors

    by Troy S. Thomas, Stephen D. Kiser, William D. Casebeer ...
    Violent non-state actors (VNSA) often serve a destabilizing role in nearly every humanitarian and political crisis faced by the international community. As non-state armed groups gain greater access to resources and networks through global interconnectivity, they have come to dominate the terrain of illegal trade in drugs, guns, and humans. Warlords Rising arms those confronting the mounting ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Seeds of Empire

    Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850

    by Andrew J. Torget ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while also devastating the lives and villages of Mexicans in Texas. In response, Mexico threw open its northern territories to American farmers in hopes that cotton could bring prosperity to the region. Thousands of Anglo-Americans poured into Texas, but ... Read more

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  • Our Sister Republics

    The United States in an Age of American Revolutions

    by Caitlin Fitz ...
    Winner of the James H. Broussard First Book PrizePROSE Award in U.S. History (Honorable Mention)A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions.In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • They Called Them Greasers

    Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900

    by Arnoldo De León ...
    Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Forgotten Dead

    Mob Violence against Mexicans in the United States, 1848-1928

    by William D. Carrigan, Clive Webb ...
    Mob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. In Forgotten Dead, William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb uncover a comparatively neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, ... Read more

    $33.29 USD