Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands - America in the Nineteenth Century

Illusions of Empire is the first study to treat antebellum U. S. foreign policy, Civil War campaigning, the French Intervention in Mexico, Southwestern Indian Wars, South Texas Bandit Wars, and U. S. Reconstruction in a single volume, balancing U. S. and Mexican sources to depict a borderlands conflict with lasting ramifications.