Bruce Vandervort, Indian wars of México, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The review discusses Bruce Vandervort’s Indian wars of Mexico, Canada and the United States, 1812-1900, a work that provides a panoramic view of the conflicts between indigenous peoples and national armies in nineteenth-century North America. The author covers wars against Seminoles, Creeks, Cheyennes, Sioux, Comanches, and Apaches in the United States; against Yaquis and Mayas in Mexico; and against Crees and Métis in Canada. While drawing on elements of traditional military history, the book aligns with the “new military history,” emphasizing the social, cultural, and religious dimensions of warfare as well as the importance of indigenous leadership. Vandervort challenges the idea that technological superiority was the decisive factor in indigenous defeat, pointing instead to demographic disparities, factionalism, and the ability of nation-states to mobilize resources. The review praises the book’s clear narrative and comparative perspective, though it notes limitations in the analysis of Mexico and Canada compared to the more extensive U.S. case
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".