To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination / / Robert W. Johannsen
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press Incorporated, , 1985 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (662 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 973.6/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | To the halls of the Montezumas |
| ISBN: | 0-19-028147-2 |
| 9786610440016 | |
| 1-4237-3618-4 | |
| 1-60129-661-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783370703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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