A short, offhand, killing affair [electronic resource] : soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / Paul Foos.
Foos, Paul, 1959-
2002
E409.2 .F66 2002eb
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Title A short, offhand, killing affair [electronic resource] : soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / Paul Foos.
Author Foos, Paul, 1959-
ISBN 0807827312 (alk. paper)
0807854050 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.
Language English
Description 223 p. : ill., map.
Call Number E409.2 .F66 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.6/28
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 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.

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