A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799 Contributor(s): Santiago, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0806167440 ISBN-13: 9780806167442 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press OUR PRICE: $21.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | Modern - 18th Century - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
Dewey: 972.02 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.87 lbs) 266 pages |
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Publisher Description: This book challenges long-accepted historical orthodoxy about relations between the Spanish and the Indians in the borderlands separating what are now Mexico and the United States. While most scholars describe the decades after 1790 as a period of relative peace between the occupying Spaniards and the Apaches, Mark Santiago sees in the Mescalero Apache attacks on the Spanish beginning in 1795 a sustained, widespread, and bloody conflict. He argues that Commandant General Pedro de Nava's coordinated campaigns against the Mescaleros were the culmination of the Spanish military's efforts to contain Apache aggression, constituting one of its largest and most sustained operations in northern New Spain. A Bad Peace and a Good War examines the antecedents, tactics, and consequences of the fighting. |