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Introduction:
Karl Jacoby is an associate professor of History at Brown University. His research focuses on U.S. expansion and statebuilding in the nineteenth century, with particular attention to relations with indigenous societies and the natural world. His first book, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (University of California, 2001), explored the social impact of the conservation movement. His most recent work, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin Press, 2008) looked at the interconnections between enacting and representing violence in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. |
