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Praise for the previous edition:"Well selected black-and-white maps and reproductions of old photographs add to the readers' understandings." - Journal of ReadingControversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided t
Author : Bronwyn Mills
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 1438100140
Praise for the previous edition:"Well selected black-and-white maps and reproductions of old photographs add to the readers' understandings." - Journal of ReadingControversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided t
Author : Peter Guardino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : 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 : Christopher Conway
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1603842969
Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary collection of U.S. and Mexican sources, this volume explores the conflict that redrew the boundaries of the North American continent in the nineteenth century. Among the many period texts included here are letters from U.S. and Mexican soldiers, governmental proclamations, songs, caricatures, poetry, and newspaper articles. An Introduction, a chronology, maps, and suggestions for further reading are also included.
Author : George Wilkins Kendall
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
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Author : John DiConsiglio
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432959980
This book briefly examines the causes and impact of the Mexican-American War.
Author : John DiConsiglio
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1484610784
Why was the Mexican American War so important in the formation of the modern United States? Could Texas have survived as an independent nation or part of Mexico? This book seeks to relate the overall events and chronology of the war and shows its impact on everyday lives.
Author : Bronwyn Mills
Publisher : Facts On File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : 9780816081950
The U.S.-Mexican War divided Americans' loyalties more than any other event since the Revolution. But national opinion was powerfully shaped by the belief in "Manifest Destiny"-that the United States was predestined to occupy the North American continent "from sea to shining sea"-so a war of conquest was waged. When it was over, the United States had doubled its size at the expense of Mexico, which had ceded half of its former territory. A fast-moving narrative filled with evocative and historically accurate detail, U.S.-Mexican War, Revised Edition tells the complete story of a long-ignored but critical passage in U.S. military history. Chelsea House is proud to announce the updating and revision of its critically acclaimed America at War series. Features of this revised edition include the addition of color images and maps throughout, as well as extra sidebars and a new chapter on weapons and tactics used in the conduct of each war. Book jacket.
Author : Krystyna Libura
Publisher : Libros Tigrillo
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
A discussion of the events from both sides of the conflict, with eyewitness accounts, documents, photographs, illustrations, and notes that augment the material, covering soldier's stories and political and military strategies.
Author : Brian DeLay
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300150423
In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico's economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made "deserts" in place of thriving settlements. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory while leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to resist the American invasion and subsequent occupation. Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, "War of a Thousand Deserts" recovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory.
Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : 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.