"Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legi...

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1. Verfasser:	Johannsen, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1925-2011
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Schlagworte:	1846-1848 Mexican War, 1846-1848. Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Influence. Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Literature and the war. Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Art and the war. Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848. Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848 > Influence. HISTORY > State & Local > General. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) War and literature Mexican War Art
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Zusammenfassung:	"Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legitimized the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world. It was easily one of the most popular wars the United States has ever fought. This rich cultural history examines the war's place in the popular imagination of the era. As Robert Johannsen notes, the Mexican War was the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press, as well as the first to be waged against an alien foe in a distant, strange, and exotic land. For mid-century Americans, Johannsen shows, the war provided a window onto the outside world, promoting an awareness--if not an understanding--of a people and a land unlike any they had known before. The war helped to dispel some of the mystery of Mexico, as it generated a huge flood of popular literature, poetry, songs, art, and stage plays. Would-be historians began chronicling the war almost as soon as the first shots were fired, and the war provoked myriad questions about the true nature and purposes of the republic. 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. The book's unique perspective not only adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Mexican War; it offers new insights into American itself.--Publisher description
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xi, 363 pages) : illustrations, map
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-352) and index.
ISBN:	9780195049817 0195049810 9780195035186 0195035186 1423736184 9781423736189 9780195364187 019536418X 0190281472 9780190281472 9786610440016 6610440018 1601296614 9781601296610