![]() Offering dates, locations, and demographic data on participants and victims that he culled from Mexican sources, is a variable treasure trove for future scholars."-Amanda Taylor-Montoya, Common-Place ![]() "In this provocative and ambitious book, DeLay situates southern plains peoples at the very center of the geopolitical transformation of North America in the mid-nineteenth century. "Meticulously researched, the book shows that the impact of Native American activities in the region was stronger and had more lasting consequences than did the activities of Spaniards, Mexicans, or Americans."-J. Arturo Rosales, Montana the Magazine of Western History "Over all, provides a most satisfying, interesting narrative without sacrificing critical assessment or theoretical considerations."-F. expansion into Mexico."-Ned Blackhawk, The Journal of Military History DeLay's War of a Thousand Deserts beautifully narrates the under-told tale of how Native Americans powerfully determined the history of U.S. ![]() "Brian DeLay offers an important reassessment of not only the U.S.-Mexican war but also the history of American expansion more broadly. DeLay tells a fascinating story that will reshape how historians understand and explain the coming of the U.S.-Mexican War and its aftermath."-Jesús F. " masterful exercise in the reading of a broad range of primary sources to which historians have previously paid scant attention. is an imaginative and resourceful researcher. Drawing on contemporary accounts by Mexicans and Texans, DeLay provides a sophisticated, speculative, and controversial account of the motivations of Indians."-Glenn Altschuler, Tulsa World "In War of a Thousand Deserts, Brian DeLay tells the fascinating-and long-forgotten-story of the savage, interethnic conflict between independent tribes, Mexicans, Texans and norteamericanos. "Action-packed and densely argued."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books 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. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory while leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to resist the American invasion and subsequent occupation.Įxploring 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. ![]() Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. 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. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. An award-winning look at how Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico "An engaging book that enlivens the debate over the clash between Indians, Mexicans, and Americans in the Southwest."-Gary Clayton Anderson, Western Historical Quarterly "Action-packed and densely argued."-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books 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.
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