Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American War

by Paul Foos

Book Overview

The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807827312
• ISBN13: 9780807827314
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"