The Comanche Empire

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: B002LPYF26 ISBN13: 9780300151176 Release Date: May 2009 Publisher: Yale University Press Length: 512 Pages Weight: 1.48 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1" 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. Weber, author of B?rbaros 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. 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. Yet until now the Comanche empire has g