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War of a Thousand Deserts

By De Lay,Brian

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN
9780300119329, 0300119321
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2155580 bytes)
Series
The Lamar Series in Western History
Pages
496 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico's economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made "deserts" in place of thriving settlements. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in fa.

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