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The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen. Yale University Press, 2008, $22.00 , 500 pages, ISBN: 978-0300151176 softcover.
If you are interested in a comprehensive and revisionist history of the Comanche people and their powerful role in shaping the American Southwest, The Comanche Empire is required reading. Unlike previous respected authors, like T. R. Fehrenbach, who depicted the Comanche as "scattered bands of wanderers, never a nation." This author concludes: "Comanches inverted the projected colonial trajectory through multifaceted power politics that brought much of the Southwest under their political, economic and...