A short, offhand, killing affair
Subtitle: soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War
By: Paul Foos.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: United States. Army -- History -- Mexican War, 1846-1848.; United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Social aspects.; Soldiers -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3; title: 1 The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor: Service and Servitude 13; title: 2 Citizens' Militias in the United States 31; title: 3 Volunteer Excitement among the Masses 45; title: 4 Forced to Volunteer: The Politics of Compulsion 61; title: 5 Discipline and Desertion in Mexico 83; title: 6 Atrocity: The Wage of Manifest Destiny 113; title: 7 Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Man's Democracy 139; title: 8 Free Soil and the Heritage of the Citizen-Soldier 155.