TY - BOOK ID - 65558295 TI - Cultural Construction of Empire PY - 2012 SN - 1283714272 0803244584 0803232527 9780803244580 9780803232525 9781283714273 PB - Lincoln UNP - Nebraska DB - UniCat KW - Military dependents KW - Imperialism KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Dependents of military personnel KW - Military families KW - Dependents KW - Soldiers KW - Colonialism KW - Empires KW - Expansion (United States politics) KW - Neocolonialism KW - Political science KW - Anti-imperialist movements KW - Caesarism KW - Chauvinism and jingoism KW - Militarism KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - United States. KW - U.S. Army KW - US Army KW - New Mexico KW - Arizona KW - Â-li-sông-ná KW - Aariisuunaa KW - ʻAlikona KW - Ariz. KW - Arizona Eyâleti KW - Arizona osariik KW - Arizona-shū KW - Arizona (Ter.) KW - Arizona Territory KW - Arizono KW - Ārīzūnā KW - Aryzona KW - AZ KW - Civitas Arizonae KW - Estado de Arizona KW - Estato d'Arizona KW - Hoozdo Hahoodzo KW - Negara Bagian Arizona KW - Politeia tēs Arizona KW - Shtat Aryzona KW - State of Arizona KW - Statul Arizona KW - Talaith Arizona KW - Territory of Arizona KW - Πολιτεία της Αριζόνα KW - Αριζονα KW - Арызона KW - Аризона KW - Штат Арызона KW - Штат Аризона KW - أريزونا KW - アリゾナ KW - アリゾナ州 KW - Nuevo México KW - Nuevo Méjico KW - History, Military KW - Nuebo México KW - Departamento del Nuevo Mejico UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65558295 AB - From 1866 through 1886, the U.S. Army occupied southern Arizona and New Mexico in an attempt to claim it for settlement by Americans. Through a postcolonial lens, Janne Lahti examines the army, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire whose mission was to serve as a group of colonizers engaged in ideological as well as military, conquest.Cultural Construction of Empire explores the cultural and social representations of Native Americans, Hispanics, and frontiersmen constructed by the officers, enlisted men, and their dependents ER -