“ The Comanche Empire is the best book anyone has written about the Comanche Indians of the southern plains. Hämäläinen collates and narrates the events of the eastern and western frontiers through time in such an effective manner that the reader is swept in the flow of an almost seamless narrative.”-Mariah F. “Hämäläinen’s treatment of the complex relationships between the Comanches and other European and Native American societies is unique. “ Comanche Empire is an impressive, well-written, and important study that should significantly influence future metanarratives, whether they include all or parts of Texas, the West, the Borderlands, or even general histories of the United States and Mexico.”-Ty Cashion, Journal of Military History “ The Comanche Empire is a hugely important documentary survey of the Comanche Nation, as known from documentary sources between the late seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries.”-Ed Baker, Austin Chronicle He has rescued the Comanches from myth and distortion and given them their due in the sprawling epic that is our American story.”-John Sledge, Mobile Press-Register (AL) His broad themes are never in doubt, and the evidence he marshals is both compelling and convincing. Hämäläinen writes well and his narrative has an infectious verve and flow. “A fascinating new book details unusual and colorful history. “ fascinating and richly detailed study.”-Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News By removing the anthropology, material culture, and social history from this study of the Comanche, the author finds room to plunge deeply into the political archives of the time and tell the reader how Comancheria functioned as the midcontinental power brokers of the 1700s and 1800s.”-Ed Baker, Austin Chronicle “ The Comanche Empire is a hugely important documentary survey of the Comanche Nation, as known from documentary sources between the late 17th and the late 19th centuries. Immensely informative, particularly about activities in the eighteenth century.”-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books “Cutting-edge revisionist western history. A valuable library resource for its subject.”- Booklist And though Hämäläinen frames his arguments within scholars’ debates on proper perspectives toward the Comanche, general readers interested in the history of the Southwest will discover his to be a fascinatingly informative volume in its explanatory and narrative modes. “This comprehensive history of the Comanche people treats them as an independent power rather than as victims of American westward expansion. Hämäläinen has given us a closely argued, finely wrought, intensely challenging book.”-Joshua Piker, William and Mary Quarterly “Perhaps we can simply stipulate that The Comanche Empire is an exceptional book-in fact, one of the finest pieces of scholarship that I have read in years. Enthusiastically recommended for academic and public libraries.”- Library Journal “Hämäläinen succeeds in introducing a new perspective on Southwestern history, mastering Spanish and Mexican historic resources to tell of a horse- and bison-based Comanche empire, Comanchería. “An exhaustively researched and strikingly new interpretation of the nomadic group that dominated the Southwest from about 1750 to 1850.”-Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times With extensive knowledge and deep insight, the author brings into clear relief the Comanches’ remarkable impact on the trajectory of history. Pekka Hämäläinen shows in vivid detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875. It is a story that challenges the idea of Indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new model for the history of colonial expansion, colonial frontiers, and Native-European relations in North America and elsewhere. This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. Yet until now the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military prowess, political prestige, economic power, commercial reach, and cultural influence. Weber, author of Bárbaros In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire “Cutting-edge revisionist western history.”-Larry McMurtry, New York Review of Books “A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern America in an entirely new way.”-David J.
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