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Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 22 Sep 2023 8:40 p.m. PST |
"We've been told repeatedly over the past generation — and especially since 9/11 — that the world is more complicated than it used to be. The bipolarity of the Cold War is gone for good, and even a term like "multi-polar" seems naively tidy for an unprecedented and bewildering global era increasingly driven by nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations, terrorist networks, insurgent groups, tribal councils, warlords, drug cartels and other non-state actors and organizations. Our times may be baffling, but they are hardly unprecedented. States have always shared the international arena with non-state actors. However, abetted by professional historians, states have usually promoted international narratives that leave non-state actors trivialized, distorted or ignored altogether. Consider the U.S.–Mexican War of 1846 to 1848. Historians on both sides of the border have framed the war as a story about states. They've crafted narratives of the conflict with virtually no conceptual space for the people who actually controlled most of the territory that the two counties went to war over: the Navajos, Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas and other independent Indian peoples who dominated Mexico's far north. These native polities are invisible, or at best trivial, in history books about the U.S.–Mexican War, Manifest Destiny and Mexico's own early national period…"
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Grelber ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 23 Sep 2023 8:33 a.m. PST |
Interesting article, Tango. I am wondering to what degree the Comanche and Navajo raiding impacted trade along the Santa Fe Trail. The story has focused on the fact that if manufactured goods for the northern settlements had to come through a port like Veracruz, it is a long, long ways to Santa Fe or Albuquerque and fighting off hostiles makes it even worse. Shipping goods from the manufacturing states in the northeast by ship and later rail to St. Joseph, Missouri, then across the plains by wagon was much easier--you could get in two, maybe even three round trips a year. I also noticed that the trail ran along the northern side of the Arkansas River, the international border back then, until it could make a turn for a quick run south through as little Mexican territory as possible. Grelber |
Tango01 ![Supporting Member of TMP Supporting Member of TMP](boards/icons/sp.gif) | 23 Sep 2023 3:06 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the history explanation… Armand |
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