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" Coast-to-coast empire : "
William S. Kiser.
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BL
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839543
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Kiser, William S.,1986-
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Coast-to-coast empire : : Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico borderlands /\ William S. Kiser.
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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xi, 273 pages :: illustrations, portraits, maps ;; 24 cm
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0806160268
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: 9780806160269
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Includes bibliographical references (page 241-260) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Merchant capitalism and the Santa Fe trade -- The occupation and conquest of New Mexico -- Indian wars and the contest for the southwestern frontier -- Popular sovereignty and peculiar institutions -- Railroad capitalism and the transcontinental line -- The Civil War and the final contest for New Mexico.
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"Analyzes the political and strategic importance of nineteenth-century New Mexico as the geographic space connecting Texas and California in terms of American imperialism, Manifest Destiny, and the sectionalism surrounding slavery debates"--Publisher's description
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Manifest Destiny.
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Manifest Destiny.
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New Mexico, History, 19th century.
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New Mexico
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New Mexico.
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978.9/04
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F801.K57 2018
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