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How the West Was Drawn

Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)

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How the West Was Drawn

By: David Bernstein
Narrated by: Alan Murray
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How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the 18th and 19th centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which in turn reflected encounter and conflict between settler states and indigenous peoples.

Bernstein explores the cartographic creation of the Trans-Mississippi West through an interdisciplinary methodology in geography and history. He shows how the Pawnees and the Iowas—wedged between powerful Osages, Sioux, the horse- and captive-rich Comanche Empire, French fur traders, Spanish merchants, and American Indian agents and explorers—devised strategies of survivance and diplomacy to retain autonomy during this era. The Pawnees and the Iowas developed a strategy of cartographic resistance to predations by both Euro-American imperial powers and strong indigenous empires, navigating the volatile and rapidly changing world of the Great Plains by brokering their spatial and territorial knowledge either to stronger indigenous nations or to much weaker and conquerable American and European powers.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2018 Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (P)2022 Redwood Audiobooks
Americas Indigenous Peoples Social Sciences United States Great Plains Mississippi

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"Truly a must-read..." (American Historical Review)

"A valuable addition to the historiography of the American West and to cartographic history in general." (Journal of American History)

“A fascinating analysis of the factors that contributed to the creation of maps of the Trans-Mississippi West in the nineteenth century.” (John P. Bowes, Eastern Kentucky University)

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