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Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth-century New Mexico borderlands
xi, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.