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Reading The Comanche Empire

Book Digest There is some quibbling regarding the use of the word “empire” in Pekka Hämäläinen’s fascinating new history of the powerful and unrecognized Comanche tribe of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico. Nonetheless, this highly original narrative details the tribe’s accomplishments and impressive geographical reach throughout the 18th and 19th centuries—thereby exhibiting the large gaps that now exist in American historiography. —

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