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000318491 010__ $$a  2001059757
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000318491 1001_ $$aFoos, Paul,$$d1959-
000318491 24512 $$aA short, offhand, killing affair :$$bsoldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War /$$cPaul Foos.
000318491 260__ $$aChapel Hill :$$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$$cc2002.
000318491 300__ $$a223 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c24 cm.
000318491 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
000318491 5050_ $$aThe regular army and antebellum labor: service and servitude -- Citizens' militias in the United States -- Volunteer excitement among the masses -- Forced to volunteer: the politics of compulsion -- Discipline and desertion in Mexico -- Atrocity: the wage of manifest destiny -- Dreams of conquest and the limits of the white man's democracy -- Free soil and the heritage of the citizen-soldier.
000318491 520__ $$aPublisher's description: The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny.
000318491 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bArmy$$xHistory$$yMexican War, 1846-1848.
000318491 61010 $$aUnited States.$$bArmy$$xMilitary life$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000318491 650_0 $$aMexican War, 1846-1848$$xSocial aspects.
000318491 650_0 $$aSoldiers$$zUnited States$$xSocial conditions$$y19th century.
000318491 650_0 $$aMexican War, 1846-1848$$xInfluence.
000318491 85200 $$bgen$$hE409.2$$i.F66$$i2002
000318491 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2001059757.html
000318491 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/2001059757.html
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