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200 12$aA short, offhand, killing affair$b[electronic resource] $esoldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War /$fPaul Foos
210   $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2002
215   $a1 online resource (233 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
327   $aMachine 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.
330   $aThe Mexican-American War found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of defending freedom was now going to war on behalf of maifest destiny to conquer another nation. Through primary accounts of the soldiers and the war, Foos examines its effect on America.
606   $aMexican War, 1846-1848$xSocial aspects
606   $aSoldiers$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y19th century
606   $aMexican War, 1846-1848$xInfluence
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