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| Author | : Stephen Garrison Hyslop |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2001-12-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806133898 |
The political, military, and social importance of the Santa Fe trail is revealed in this lively historical account of one of the most important roads in American history.
| 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 | : Philip St. George Cooke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1878 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John S.D. Eisenhower |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 597 |
| Release | : 2013-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307827682 |
The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this highly readable account, John S. D. Eisenhower provides a comprehensive survey of this frequently overlooked war. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
| 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.
| Author | : Karl Jack Bauer |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 1992-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780803261075 |
"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
| 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 | : Ernesto Chavez |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2018-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1319242790 |
The U.S. war with Mexico was a pivotal event in American history, it set crucial wartime precedents and served as a precursor for the impending Civil War. With a powerful introduction and rich collection of documents, Ernesto Ch‡vez makes a convincing case that as an expansionist war, the U.S.-Mexico conflict set a new standard for the acquisition of foreign territory through war. Equally important, the war racialized the enemy, and in so doing accentuated the nature of whiteness and white male citizenship in the U.S., especially as it related to conquered Mexicans, Indians, slaves, and even women. The war, along with ongoing westward expansion, heightened public debates in the North and South about slavery and its place in newly-acquired territories. In addition, Ch‡vez shows how the political, economic and social development of each nation played a critical role in the path to war and its ultimate outcome. Both official and popular documents offer the events leading up to the war, the politics surrounding it, popular sentiment in both countries about it, and the war’s long-term impact on the future development and direction of these two nations. Headnotes, a chronology, maps and a selected bibliography enrich student understanding of this important historical moment.
| Author | : Timothy J. Henderson |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008-05-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1429922796 |
A concise yet comprehensive social history of the Mexican–American War as it was experienced by the people of Mexico. The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North America to US expansion, and magnified tensions that led to civil wars in both countries. Among generations of Latin Americans, it helped to cement the image of the United States as an arrogant, aggressive, and imperialist nation, poisoning relations between a young America and its southern neighbors. In contrast with many current books that treat the war as a fundamentally American experience, Timothy J. Henderson’s A Glorious Defeat offers a fresh perspective on the Mexican side of the equation. Examining the manner in which Mexico gained independence, Henderson brings to light a greater understanding of that country’s intense factionalism and political paralysis leading up to and through the war.
| Author | : Richard Griswold del Castillo |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1992-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780806124780 |
Signed in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war between the United States and Mexico and gave a large portion of Mexico’s northern territories to the United States. The language of the treaty was designed to deal fairly with the people who became residents of the United States by default. However, as Richard Griswold del Castillo points out, articles calling for equality and protection of civil and property rights were either ignored or interpreted to favor those involved in the westward expansion of the United States rather than the Mexicans and Indians living in the conquered territories.
