Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0674027205 ISBN13: 9780674027206 Release Date: April 2008 Publisher: Harvard University Press Length: 384 Pages Weight: 1.35 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2" American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West. On the distant margins of empire, Great Basin Indians increasingly found themselves engulfed in the chaotic storms of European expansion and responded in ways that refashioned themselves and those around them. Focusing on Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone Indians, Blackhawk illuminates this history through a lens of violence, excavating the myriad impacts of col