Coast-to-coast empire : Manifest Destiny in the nineteenth-century New Mexico borderlands /
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.
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Norman :
University of Oklahoma Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.