When we think of the conquest of the West, the image of these beautiful desertic landscape in their shades of red and orange comes in mind, filled with cow-boys speaking roughly and not hesitating to confront the looters and the Indians. However, the conquest of the West was a lot more complex than that!
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A few books to read:
A People History of the United States, Howard Zinn, New-York, HarperCollins, 1980
François Durpaire, Histoire des États-Unis, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, « Que sais-je ? », 2013
Claude Fohlen, Les Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, Paris, PUF,1995
Richard White, It's your misfortune and none of my own : A new history of the American West, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991
Spencer C. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607-1890 : A Political, Social, and Military History, Santa Barbara, ABC-CLIO, 2011
Howard Lamar, The Reader's encyclopedia of the American West, New York, Crowell, 1977
Interesting links (most of them in French):
www.clio.fr/BIBLIOTHEQUE/la_co...
Fort Alamo and some intells on the Mexico war: www.herodote.net/6_mars_1836-...
A great page on the Native Americans: www.uk-us.fr/indiens.htm
www.histoirealacarte.com/carte...
drc.nationalcowboymuseum.org/e...
www.histoirealacarte.com/carte...
Un très bel article wikipédia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...
and some more cool links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeste...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_a...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_R...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifes...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican...
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conqu%C...
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