A short, offhand, killing affair: soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War
Publisher's description: The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 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-an...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Publisher's description: The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) 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 diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Erscheint: Oktober 2002 |
| Beschreibung: | 223 S. Kt. |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
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.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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