Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire

Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of EmpireReferences to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation Geronimo used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian Wars Everywhere, Stefan Aune shows how these resonances signal a deeper history, one in which the Indian Wars function as a shadow doctrine

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