Short, Offhand, Killing Affair Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War

Name: Short, Offhand, Killing Affair Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War
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ISBN: 9780807854051

ISBN-10: 0807854050

ISBN-13: 9780807854051

Edition: 2002

Authors: Paul Foos

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The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.990



A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair


Introduction



Service and Servitude



Citizens' Militias in the United States



Volunteer Excitement among the Masses



The Politics of Compulsion



Discipline and Desertion in Mexico



The Wage of Manifest Destiny



Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy



Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index