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The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.

Introduction: common men, violence, and settler colonialism / by Janne Lahti -- Santiago Brito / by Lance R. Blyth -- Louis Geck / by William S. Kiser -- Homobono Carabajal / by Jerry D. Thompson -- Alonzo Ickis / by Megan Kate Nelson -- Alonzo Davis / by Andrew E. Masich -- Harry McConnell / by Robert Wooster -- George Goldsby / by James N. Leiker -- Emil Bode / by Thomas T. Smith -- Mickey Free / by Victoria Smith -- John Rope / by Janne Lahti

Introduction : a colonizer community in the borderlands -- From Apacheria to American Southwest -- Journey to the "outside" -- The place facing colonialism -- Apaches in white army minds -- Army village as middle-class living space -- Manual labor and leisure -- Colonized labor -- Conclusion : an empire

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia. The authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes.

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond.
The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures.
Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.