"A fascinating new book, details unusual and colorful history. " The Comanche Empire is a hugely important documentary survey of the Comanche Nation, as known from documentary sources between the late 17th and the late 19th centuries."-Ed Baker, The Austin Chronicle He has rescued the Comanches from myth and distortion and given them their due in the sprawling epic that is our American story."-John Sledge, Mobile Press-Register (AL) His broad themes are never in doubt, and the evidence he marshals is both compelling and convincing. Hämäläinen writes well and his narrative has an infectious verve and flow. " fascinating and richly detailed study."-Si Dunn, Dallas Morning News By removing the anthropology, material culture, and social history from this study of the Comanche, the author finds room to plunge deeply into the political archives of the time and tell the reader how Comancheria functioned as the midcontinental power brokers of the 1700s and 1800s."-Ed Baker, The Austin Chronicle " The Comanche Empire is a hugely important documentary survey of the Comanche Nation, as known from documentary sources between the late 17th and the late 19th centuries. Immensely informative, particularly about activities in the eighteenth century."-Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books "Cutting-edge revisionist western history. A valuable library resource for its subject."- Booklist And though Hamalainen frames his arguments within scholars' debates on proper perspectives toward the Comanche, general readers interested in the history of the Southwest will discover his to be a fascinatingly informative volume in its explanatory and narrative modes. "This comprehensive history of the Comanche people treats them as an independent power rather than as victims of American westward expansion. Enthusiastically recommended for academic and public libraries."- Library Journal "Hämäläinen succeeds in introducing a new perspective on Southwestern history, mastering Spanish and Mexican historic resources to tell of a horse- and bison-based Comanche empire, Comanchería. With extensive knowledge and deep insight, the author brings into clear relief the Comanches' remarkable impact on the trajectory of history. Pekka Hämäläinen shows in vivid detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they fell to defeat in 1875. It is a story that challenges the idea of indigenous peoples as victims of European expansion and offers a new model for the history of colonial expansion, colonial frontiers, and Native-European relations in North America and elsewhere. This compelling and original book uncovers the lost story of the Comanches. Yet, until now, the Comanche empire has gone unrecognized in American history. 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. 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. "A landmark study that will make readers see the history of southwestern BárbarosĪn award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire "Cutting-edge revisionist western history."-Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books
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