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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... officers who had carried out General Philip Sheridan's call for total war against the Plains Indians most implacably. During the fierce Montana winter of 1876–77, Miles determined he would follow “the Indians . . . where they think we ...
... officers from the frontier to overseas posts. More broadly, it examines how the army's conquests in the North American West generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of ...
... officers directed toward the resistant subjects of the new overseas empire. The American state project of consolidating territorial control over the continent entailed more than purely military conquest. And the same is true of the next ...
... officers. The men profiled in these pages, Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing, were all shaped as soldiers and as future colonial officials by their formative experiences in what each of them referred to as ...
... officers in command of Indian Scouts, including Hugh Lenox Scott, served as frontline ethnologists. In this way, military scouting reinforced and informed late nineteenth-century theories about the very nature of the categories ...
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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