The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hämäläinen
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300126549
- ISBN 13
- 9780300126549
- Seller
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 500 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated Book Club edition 2008. Handsome black boards and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast Comanche empire
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history.
This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. It is a story that challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new model for the history of colonial expansion, colonial frontiers, and Native-European relations in North America and elsewhere. Pekka Hämäläinen shows in vivid detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875. With extensive knowledge and deep insight, the author brings into clear relief the Comanches' remarkable impact on the trajectory of history.
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657280
- Title
- The Comanche Empire
- Author
- Pekka Hämäläinen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300126549
- ISBN 13
- 9780300126549
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2008
- Pages
- 500
- Size
- octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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