Anderson C Clayton

[ The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention[ THE INDIAN SOUTHWEST, 1580-1830: ETHNOGENESIS AND REINVENTION ] By Anderson, Gary Clayton ( Author )Aug-03-2009 Paperback

The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

The Indian Southwest, 1580–1830 demonstrates that, in the face of European conquest, severe drought, and disease, Indians in the Southwest proved remarkably adaptable and dynamic, remaining independent actors and even prospering. Some tribes temporarily joined Spanish missions or assimilated into ot...

The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California: Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851

As the army’s topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and its geography—providing critical information for an understaffed military charged with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific...

The Politics of Purity: Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy

Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin ...

The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875

This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle betwee...

Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America

Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves Ame...

Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862

In August 1862 the Dakota of Eastern Sioux resorted to armed conflict against the white settlers of southern Minnesota. This study uses an ethnohistorical approach to explain why the bonds of peace between the Dakota and the whites were suddenly broken. It shows how the Dakota concept of kinsmen aff...