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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463990303321

Autore

Van Wagenen Michael

Titolo

Remembering the forgotten war : the enduring legacies of the U.S./Mexican War / / Michael Scott Van Wagenen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-213-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 329 p., [20] p. of plates ) : ill. ;

Collana

Public History in Historical Perspective

Disciplina

973.6/2

Soggetti

Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Influence

Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Public opinion

Collective memory - United States

Collective memory - Mexico

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Of War and Soccer -- Victory and Dissolution : The United States, 1848/1865 -- In the Shadow of Defeat : Mexico, 1848/1866 -- Old Soldiers and New Wars : The United States, 1866/1895 -- Inventing Heroes : Mexico, 1867/1920 -- Empire and Exclusion : The United States, 1896/1929 -- Rituals of the State : Mexico, 1921/1952 -- Good Neighbors and Bad Blood : The United States, 1930/1965 -- Resisting the Gringos : Mexico, 1953/1989 -- Contesting American Pasts : The United States, 1966/1989 -- Remembrance and Free Trade : The United States and Mexico, 1990/2008 -- Conclusion: Putting the Skeletons to Rest.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book answers the deeper question of how remembrance of the U.S.-Mexican War has shaped the complex relationship between these former enemies now turned friends. The distant violence becomes a new lens through which to view today's rivalries and resentments"--Page 7.