Shadows at Dawn : An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

by Jacoby, Karl; Limerick, Patricia Nelson

• ISBN13: 9780143116219
• ISBN10: 0143116215
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781594201936
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-24
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

This groundbreaking exploration of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history illuminates the clash of American, Mexican, and tribal cultures in the southwestern borderlands.

Author Biography

Karl Jacoby is an associate professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of The Hidden History of American Conservatism, which won the American Historical Association-'s major prize for the best book on American law and society. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and chair of the Board of the Center of the American West. Her books include The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Shadows At Dawn Foreword: Patricia Nelson Limerick

Introduction
A Note on Terminology

Part One: Violence

The O'odham
Los Vecinos
The Americans
The Nnee

Part Two: Justice

Part Three: Memory

The O'odham
Los Vecinos
The Americans
The Nnee

Epilogue

Acknowledgments
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Image Credits