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Johannsen Robert W (Robert Walter), <1925-2011, > |
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Titolo |
To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination / / Robert W. Johannsen |
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Oxford : , : Oxford University Press Incorporated, , 1985 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-028147-2 |
9786610440016 |
1-4237-3618-4 |
1-60129-661-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (662 pages) |
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Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Influence |
Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Literature and the war |
Mexican War, 1846-1848 - Art and the war |
Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- PROLOGUE: Washington, July 4, 1848 -- CHAPTER 1: America's First Foreign War -- CHAPTER 2: A Dare-Devil War Spirit -- CHAPTER 3: The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue -- CHAPTER 4: Visions of Romance and Chivalry -- CHAPTER 5: A New Stock of Heroes -- CHAPTER 6: Travelers in a Foreign Land -- CHAPTER 7: A War-Literature -- CHAPTER 8: Poetry and the Popular Arts -- CHAPTER 9: The Historians' War -- CHAPTER 10: The War and the Republic -- EPILOGUE A: New Epoch in American History -- Notes -- Index. |
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For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular |
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imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself. |
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