Ebook: War of a Thousand Deserts
Author: De LayBrian
- Series: The Lamar Series in Western History
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: New Haven
- Language: English
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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. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. 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. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in fa.
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