Foos, Paul,  1959- <br/><br/>
A short, offhand, killing affair  soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War /  [electronic resource] : 
Paul Foos. 
 - Chapel Hill :  University of North Carolina Press,  c2002. 
 - 223 p. :  ill., map ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2008. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Army --History--Mexican War, 1846-1848.<br/>United States. Army --Military life--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mexican War, 1846-1848--Social aspects.<br/>Soldiers--Social conditions--United States--19th century.<br/>Mexican War, 1846-1848--Influence.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E409.2  / .F66 2002eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.6/28