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Wars within a war controversy and conflict over the American Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Women numerous and armed : gender and the politics of subsistence in the Civil War south /…”
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A short, offhand, killing affair soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / by Foos, Paul, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…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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