Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American EmpireThe Spanish-American War marked the emergence of the United States as an imperial power. It was when the United States first landed troops overseas and established governments of occupation in the Philippines, Cuba, and other formerly Spanish colonies. But such actions to extend U.S. sovereignty abroad, argues Katharine Bjork, had a precedent in earlier relations with Native nations at home. In Prairie Imperialists, Bjork traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898. |
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... Miles, who had arrived in Cuba only the week before, was personally leading the hurried assault on Puerto Rico. “It ... Miles's men had relentlessly pursued the Cheyenne and Lakota (Sioux) hunting bands who searched for game and camped ...
... Miles stood poised to lead an invasion of Puerto Rico. Even transported to the Caribbean in summer, Miles's perceptions reflected the indelible frontier imagery inscribed by his years spent in Indian Country. Describing the ships ...
... Miles, once established on Puerto Rican soil, addressed the island's residents in a register familiar to him from his days of conciliating and coercing Indians in the West. Following an uneventful landing at Guánica, Miles's forces ...
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Contents
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Part II Indian Country Abroad | 117 |
Part III The Last Indian War | 199 |
Notes | 253 |
Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 329 |
Acknowledgments | 337 |
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