TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lahti,Janne
TI  - Cultural Construction of Empire: the U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico
SN  - 9780803244580
AV  - F811 .C858 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - UNP - Nebraska
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - Arizona
KW  - New Mexico
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Military dependents
KW  - History, Military
KW  - United States. Army
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Untitled; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Colonizer Community in the Borderlands; 1. From Apacheria to American Southwest; 2. Journey to the "Outside"; 3. The Place Facing Colonialism; 4. Apaches in White Army Minds; 5. Army Village as Middle-Class Living Space; 6. Manual Labor and Leisure; 7. Colonized Labor; Conclusion: An Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest. Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents
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