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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... United States—Territorial expansion. | Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853–1934. | Bullard, Robert Lee, 1861–1947. | Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860–1948. | Indians of North America—Wars—1866–1895. | Indians, Treatment of—United States ...
... United States meant to allow the Cubans unmediated self-rule. Exclusion of the Cuban military leadership from Santiago foreshadowed the ways the Americans would circumscribe Cuba's hard-won freedom well into the next century.4 With ...
... United States, in the cause of liberty, justice, and humanity, its military forces have come to occupy the island of Puerto Rico.... We have not come to make war upon the people of a country that for centuries has been oppressed, but ...
... United States to act as a “government of military occupation.” By these ritual acts of proclamation and flag raising, U.S. commanders signaled America's claim over the Spanish colonies. As an occupying power, the United States promised ...
... United States conquered in its war with Mexico.13 Implicit in the language directed at Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Filipinos was the presumption that American sovereignty derived not only from its military defeat of Spain, but equally ...
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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