War of a thousand deserts
by Brian DeLay
"Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, War of a Thousand Deserts recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory."--Jacket.
Ethnic relationsHistoryHistory, MilitaryIndiansIndians of North AmericaMexican War, 1846-1848Military HistoryWarsIndians of north america, warsMexican-american border regionMexico, historyEthnology, mexico