Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Empires, Nations, and Families by Anne F. Hyde To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. However, this was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hydes narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture-not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised. Notes A study of the role of family and trade networks in shaping the American West in the nineteenth century. Author Biography Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and coauthor, with William Deverell, of The West in the History of the Nation. Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of MapsAcknowledgments: Adventures in the Land of the DeadIntroduction: The Geography of Empire in 1804 St. Louis Michilimackinac Santa Fe The Pacific Coast Family Stories "Died Single" Why Fur and Why Families? Sources and Definitions Maps and SignpostsPart I: Replacing a State: The Continental Web of Family TradeChapter 1: Families and Fur: The Personal World of the Early American West The Chouteau Family and Missouri River World "Middle Ground" or "Native Ground"? "Tough Love" and Family Loyalty On the Trail of Wealth and Opportunity The Sublette Brothers and Their Family Business Chasing Fortune and Family Americans in Mexico, Californios in America Dangerous PlacesChapter 2: Fort Vancouvers Families: The Custom of the Country Cogs in the Fur Trade The Local and Global Communities of the Columbia The Métis World of John McLoughlin The Tentacles of International Trade The McLoughlins and the Company Life and Work on the Columbia Global Ambitions The Fine Mesh of the Family Network Immigrants, Nations, and the Loss of a Family Empire Murder at Fort Stikine and Suicide in CaliforniaChapter 3: Three Western Places: Regional Communities and Vecinidad William Bents Border World Bents Fort and Its Neighborhood Omens and Weddings Norteños and Yanquis in Alta California Captain Sutters New Helvetia Dinner and Diplomacy in Northern California Portents of Change Stephen Austins Border World Planting Colonies in Texas Austins Fractious NeighborhoodPART II: Americans All: The Mixed World of Indian CountryChapter 4: The Early West: The Many Faces of Indian Country Cherokee, Shawnee, and Osage The View from Fort Osage The View from St. Louis Change, Loss, and Warfare on the Missouri The Arikara War Métis and Half-Breed in an Anglo WestChapter 5: Empires in Transition: Indian Country at Midcentury, 1825-1860 Counting Indians Expanding Power The Santa Fe Trail Native Nations and Texas Revolution Retrenchment and Resistance The Osage and Accommodation on the Arkansas Good Fathers and the Fur Trade Captivity Tales and Epidemic DiseasePART III: From Nations to Nation: Imposing a State, 1840-1865 Chapter 6: Unintended Consequences: Families, Nations, and the Mexican War What if Guadelupe Boggs married Teresina Carson? Questions of Citizenship and Identity Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormonism Mexican Revolutions Continental Rumor Factories The Bent Family and the Vagaries of War Bents Choice Brigham Young and the Choices of War Hard Choices in California The McLoughlins ChoiceChapter 7: Border Wars: Disorder and Disaster in the 1850s The Evolving Fur Trade World Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas Indian War in the Pacific Northwest Oregons Bloody Legacy The Failure of Warfare and Washingtons Native Nations Nation-Building in the Southwest Raising Families and Fighting Wars Chapter 8: The State and its Handmaidens: Imposing Order Civil Threats and the Mormons The Personal Politics of Polygamy and Theocracy The Almost War and the Massacre in Utah Conquest and Chaos in California A Nation of Squatters While Kansas Bled and Native People Fled The Pesky Details of Popular Sovereignty A National Horror Show The Minnesota Uprising of 1862 Sand Creek and the Bent Family NightmareEpilogue: How it All Turned Out Sonoma Los Angeles Taos The Arkansas River Oregon St. Louis KawsmouthNotes BibliographyIndex Review "Hyde weaves her stories together to create a solid and provocative argument in Empires, Nations, and Families, a book that is not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing."—Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History"Students of the Great Plains and the nineteenth-century West in general, at whatever level, will be well rewarded by a reading of Anne Hydes fine book."—Walter Nugent, Great Plains Quarterly "Hydes volume is a superb telling of a tale familiar to students of the American West but presented in a new, enlivening manner that will make readers remember why they love frontier American history so very much."—Patricia Ann Owens, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society"The nuanced and complex narrative contextualizes the experiences of individuals, families, and communities. . . . Taking a unique approach that emphasizes the importance of family networks and integrating a newer generation of scholarship to explain the social and cultural dynamics of the West, Hyde has produced a substantial and highly original interpretation of the period [1800–61]. . . . An excellent work and a major contribution to the historiography of the North American West."—John Husmann, South Dakota History"The strength of [Hydes] work lies in her ability to assemble and integrate a vast amount of secondary work into a thematic framework that emphasizes the important role kinship structures played in shaping the economic and social structures of the West prior to 1860."—James E. Sherow, Kansas History "This is an important and useful book, and it should find a large readership."—Katrine Barber, Oregon Historical Quarterly Promotional A study of the role of family and trade networks in shaping the American West in the nineteenth century. Prizes Winner of Bancroft Prize 2012 Commended for Pulitzer Prize (History) 2012 Review Quote "This is an important and useful book, and it should find a large readership."-Katrine Barber, Oregon Historical Quarterly Details ISBN0803224052 Author Anne F. Hyde Short Title EMPIRES NATIONS & FAMILIES Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English ISBN-10 0803224052 ISBN-13 9780803224056 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2011 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Subtitle A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Illustrations 43 illustrations, 12 maps DEWEY 978.02 Publication Date 2011-07-01 UK Release Date 2011-07-01 AU Release Date 2011-07-01 NZ Release Date 2011-07-01 US Release Date 2011-07-01 Pages 648 Audience General Series History of the American West We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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