Review Of The Mexican War
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Author | : Peter Guardino |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2017-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674981847 |
Winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize Winner of the Utley Prize Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History “The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue...Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.” —James Oakes, New York Review of Books “Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force.” —Journal of American History It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican–American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.
Author | : Amy S. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307475999 |
The definitive history of the often forgotten U.S.-Mexican War paints an intimate portrait of the major players and their world—from Indian fights and Manifest Destiny, to secret military maneuvers, gunshot wounds, and political spin. “If one can read only a single book about the Mexican-American War, this is the one to read.” —The New York Review of Books Often overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation later, and launched the career of Abraham Lincoln. Amy S. Greenberg’s skilled storytelling and rigorous scholarship bring this American war for empire to life with memorable characters, plotlines, and legacies. Along the way it captures a young Lincoln mismatching his clothes, the lasting influence of the Founding Fathers, the birth of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and America’s first national antiwar movement. A key chapter in the creation of the United States, it is the story of a burgeoning nation and an unforgettable conflict that has shaped American history.
Author | : Robert W. Johannsen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1988-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019536418X |
For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Author | : John DiConsiglio |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1432959980 |
This book briefly examines the causes and impact of the Mexican-American War.
Author | : Charles T. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
ISBN | : |
It is the object of this essay to exhibit the true character of the war in which our country has lately been engaged. It aims to present in a clear and concise manner the facts and considerations which will enable the reader to form a correct opinion concerning the causes of this contest, and the motives and the excuses for its prosecution. It is its further design to give a view of the consequences of the war; to examine the benefits which have been attributed to it, and the evils, near and remote, of which it has been the cause; to present the duty and the true glory and ambition of the United States; and to point out the manner in which alone peace can be established among civilized nations.--From the preface.
Author | : Charles M. Robinson |
Publisher | : Fred Rider Cotten Popular Hist |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Examines the key role Texas played in the Mexican War, describing battles fought on Texas soil and the contributions of Texas troops throughout the war.
Author | : William 1789-1858 Jay |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371291013 |
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Author | : William Jay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1849 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
ISBN | : |
Jay (son of John Jay) was a prominent New York judge and abolitionist leader; he bitterly criticized the war as a conspiracy to seize new territory for slaveholders.
Author | : Robert W. Merry |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 074329744X |
ROBERT MERRY’S BRILLIANT AND HIGHLY ACCLAIMED HISTORY OF A CRUCIAL EPOCH IN U.S. HISTORY. In a one-term presidency, James K. Polk completed the story of America’s Manifest Destiny—extending its territory across the continent by threatening England with war and manufacturing a controversial and unpopular two-year war with Mexico.
Author | : Joseph Wheelan |
Publisher | : Carroll & Graf Publishers |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2007-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Presents an account of the Mexican War, providing an analysis of its cause, battles, weapons, and outcome.