’Brave Men to Brave Men’ : Experiencing Honor and Masculinities on a Settler Colonial Borderland

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Editor's Note

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Review of \u3ci\u3eWarriors in Uniform: The Legacy of American Indian Heroism\u3c/i\u3e by Herman J. Viola

This book celebrates the military contributions of American Indians in United States wars. It is a fluently written, although mainly descriptive, overview of American Indian participation stretching from the American Revolution to the present War on Terrorism. Visually, everything is stunning; the illustrations are numerous and impressive. At the beginning the narrative sufficiently describes some of the main events of various conflicts and Native participation, but as the book progresses closer to the present day the often very interesting personal stories of American Indian soldiers take much more space, so much that they seem to leave too little room for the general description of the wars (causes, major battles, or end results). Throughout, the book explains Native willingness to enlist as a consequence of warrior tradition and patriotism. Although military profession has an important role in the heritage and culture of many tribes, a critical reader wanting to dig deeper into the psyche of American Indian soldiers might think that this explanation is too simplistic. Also, some readers might dislike the book\u27s sometimes overtly patriotic tone. There is very little on the horrors and injustices of war and hardly anything critical on some of the most controversial recent wars, like Vietnam or Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, war comes out primarily as an honorable and positive undertaking

Colonial Violence : European Empires and the Use of Force

Book review. Reviewed work: Colonial Violence: European Empires and the Use of Force / Dierk Walter ; translated by Peter. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.Non peer reviewe

The American West and the World : Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

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Kiser, William S.: Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands [Book Review]

Book review. Reviewed book: Kiser, William S.: Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. ISBN 9780806160269.Non peer reviewe

The American West and the World

The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context