A short, offhand, killing affair [electronic resource] : soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / Paul Foos.
By: Foos, Paul.
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Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002Description: 223 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.Subject(s): United States. Army -- History -- Mexican War, 1846-1848 | United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century | Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Social aspects | Soldiers -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- InfluenceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.6/28 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- 1 The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor: Service and Servitude 13 -- 2 Citizens' Militias in the United States 31 -- 3 Volunteer Excitement among the Masses 45 -- 4 Forced to Volunteer: The Politics of Compulsion 61 -- 5 Discipline and Desertion in Mexico 83 -- 6 Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny 113 -- 7 Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy 139 -- 8 Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier 155.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.