Includes bibliographical references (page 241-260) and index.
Introduction -- Merchant capitalism and the Santa Fe trade -- The occupation and conquest of New Mexico -- Indian wars and the contest for the southwestern frontier -- Popular sovereignty and peculiar institutions -- Railroad capitalism and the transcontinental line -- The Civil War and the final contest for New Mexico.
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"Analyzes the political and strategic importance of nineteenth-century New Mexico as the geographic space connecting Texas and California in terms of American imperialism, Manifest Destiny, and the sectionalism surrounding slavery debates"--Publisher's description