In Mexican prisons
Subtitle: the journal of Eduard Harkort, 1832-1834
By: translated and edited by Louis E. Brister.
Contributors: Brister, Louis E. 1938-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Harkort, Eduard, 1797-1836 -- Diaries.; Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876.; Prisoners of war -- Mexico -- Diaries.; Soldiers -- Mexico -- Diaries.; Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861.
Description: Popular history has not venerated Eduard Harkort as a hero of either Santa Anna's 1832 uprising in Mexico or the Texas Revolution against that erstwhile revolutionary-turned-dictator. The journal of Harkort, a middle-class German mining engineer, written down during his two years of fighting and imprisonment in Mexico, reveals the activities and feelings of a brave and multitalented man who withdrew from nineteenth-century corporate life and ultimately found himself in battle, before a firing squad, and in prison.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [175]-182.
Translation of: Aus mejicanischen Gefängnissen.
Includes index.