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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kiser, William S., 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
Subjects:
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.