TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foos,Paul
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - A short, offhand, killing affair: soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War 
AV  - E409.2 .F66 2002eb
U1  - 973.6/28 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - Mexican War, 1846-1848
KW  - Military life
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Influence
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2008; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
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ER  -