A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War /

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Hlavní autor: Foos, Paul, 1959-
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
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  • 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.