{"product_id":"empires-nations-and-families-9780803224056","title":"Empires Nations and Families","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. However, this was not, as \u003cem\u003eEmpires, Nations, and Families\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hyde weaves her stories together to create a solid and provocative argument in \u003ci\u003eEmpires, Nations, and Families, \u003c\/i\u003ea book that is not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.\"—Adrienne Caughfield, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Students of the Great Plains and the nineteenth-century West in general, at whatever level, will be well rewarded by a reading of Anne Hyde's fine book.\"—Walter Nugent, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hyde's volume is a superb telling of a tale familiar to students of the American West but presented in a new, enlivening manner that will make readers remember why they love frontier American history so very much.\"—Patricia Ann Owens, \u003ci\u003eThe Register of the Kentucky Historical Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The nuanced and complex narrative contextualizes the experiences of individuals, families, and communities. . . . Taking a unique approach that emphasizes the importance of family networks and integrating a newer generation of scholarship to explain the social and cultural dynamics of the West, Hyde has produced a substantial and highly original interpretation of the period [1800–61]. . . . An excellent work and a major contribution to the historiography of the North American West.”—John Husmann, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The strength of [Hyde’s] work lies in her ability to assemble and integrate a vast amount of secondary work into a thematic framework that emphasizes the important role kinship structures played in shaping the economic and social structures of the West prior to 1860.”—James E. Sherow, \u003ci\u003eKansas History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an important and useful book, and it should find a large readership.”—Katrine Barber, \u003ci\u003eOregon Historical Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations                                         \u003cbr\u003eList of MapsAcknowledgments: Adventures in the Land of the Dead\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Geography of Empire in 1804                  \u003cbr\u003e     St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e     Michilimackinac\u003cbr\u003e     Santa Fe\u003cbr\u003e     The Pacific Coast     Family Stories\u003cbr\u003e     “Died Single” \u003cbr\u003e     Why Fur and Why Families?\u003cbr\u003e     Sources and Definitions\u003cbr\u003e     Maps and Signposts\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Replacing a State: The Continental Web of Family Trade\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Families and Fur: The Personal World of the Early American West\u003cbr\u003e     The Chouteau Family and Missouri River World\u003cbr\u003e     “Middle Ground” or “Native Ground”?\u003cbr\u003e     “Tough Love” and Family Loyalty\u003cbr\u003e      On the Trail of Wealth and Opportunity\u003cbr\u003e      The Sublette Brothers and Their Family Business \u003cbr\u003e      Chasing Fortune and Family \u003cbr\u003e      Americans in Mexico, Californios in America\u003cbr\u003e      Dangerous Places\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Fort Vancouver’s Families: The Custom of the Country      \u003cbr\u003e      Cogs in the Fur Trade\u003cbr\u003e      The Local and Global Communities of the Columbia\u003cbr\u003e      The Métis World of John McLoughlin\u003cbr\u003e      The Tentacles of International Trade\u003cbr\u003e      The McLoughlins and the Company\u003cbr\u003e       Life and Work on the Columbia\u003cbr\u003e       Global Ambitions\u003cbr\u003e       The Fine Mesh of the Family Network\u003cbr\u003e       Immigrants, Nations, and the Loss of a Family Empire\u003cbr\u003e       Murder at Fort Stikine and Suicide in California\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Three Western Places: Regional Communities and \u003ci\u003eVecinidad\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e      William Bent’s Border World\u003cbr\u003e      Bent's Fort and Its Neighborhood\u003cbr\u003e      Omens and Weddings\u003cbr\u003e      Norteños and Yanquis in Alta California\u003cbr\u003e      Captain Sutter's New Helvetia\u003cbr\u003e      Dinner and Diplomacy in Northern California\u003cbr\u003e      Portents of Change\u003cbr\u003e      Stephen Austin’s Border World\u003cbr\u003e      Planting Colonies in Texas\u003cbr\u003e      Austin's Fractious Neighborhood\u003cbr\u003ePART II: Americans All: The Mixed World of Indian Country\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Early West: The Many Faces of Indian Country\u003cbr\u003e     Cherokee, Shawnee, and Osage\u003cbr\u003e     The View from Fort Osage\u003cbr\u003e     The View from St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e     Change, Loss, and Warfare on the Missouri\u003cbr\u003e     The Arikara War\u003cbr\u003e     Métis and Half-Breed in an Anglo West\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Empires in Transition: Indian Country at Midcentury, 1825-1860       \u003cbr\u003e      Counting Indians\u003cbr\u003e      Expanding Power\u003cbr\u003e      The Santa Fe Trail\u003cbr\u003e      Native Nations and Texas Revolution\u003cbr\u003e      Retrenchment and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e      The Osage and Accommodation on the Arkansas\u003cbr\u003e      Good Fathers and the Fur Trade\u003cbr\u003e      Captivity Tales and Epidemic Disease\u003cbr\u003ePART III: From Nations to Nation: Imposing a State, 1840-1865 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Unintended Consequences: Families, Nations, and the Mexican War\u003cbr\u003e      What if Guadelupe Boggs married Teresina Carson?\u003cbr\u003e      Questions of Citizenship and Identity \u003cbr\u003e      Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormonism\u003cbr\u003e      Mexican Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e      Continental Rumor Factories\u003cbr\u003e      The Bent Family and the Vagaries of War\u003cbr\u003e      Bent’s Choice\u003cbr\u003e      Brigham Young and the Choices of War\u003cbr\u003e      Hard Choices in California\u003cbr\u003e     The McLoughlins’ Choice\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Border Wars: Disorder and Disaster in the 1850s    \u003cbr\u003e      The Evolving Fur Trade World\u003cbr\u003e      Postwar Family and Business on the Arkansas\u003cbr\u003e      Indian War in the Pacific Northwest\u003cbr\u003e      Oregon's Bloody Legacy\u003cbr\u003e      The Failure of Warfare and Washington’s Native Nations\u003cbr\u003e      Nation-Building in the Southwest \u003cbr\u003e      Raising Families and Fighting Wars \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The State and its Handmaidens: Imposing Order     \u003cbr\u003e     Civil Threats and the Mormons\u003cbr\u003e     The Personal Politics of Polygamy and Theocracy\u003cbr\u003e     The Almost War and the Massacre in Utah\u003cbr\u003e     Conquest and Chaos in California\u003cbr\u003e     A Nation of Squatters\u003cbr\u003e     While Kansas Bled and Native People Fled\u003cbr\u003e     The Pesky Details of Popular Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e     A National Horror Show\u003cbr\u003e     The Minnesota Uprising of 1862\u003cbr\u003e     Sand Creek and the Bent Family Nightmare\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: How it All Turned Out                            \u003cbr\u003e    Sonoma\u003cbr\u003e    Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e    Taos\u003cbr\u003e    The Arkansas River\u003cbr\u003e    Oregon\u003cbr\u003e    St. Louis\u003cbr\u003e    Kawsmouth\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliographyIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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