A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2002.
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Sommario:
- 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.