A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict During the Mexican-American WarThe 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 examina |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Regular Army and Antebellum Labor Service and Servitude | 13 |
Citizens Militias in the United States | 31 |
Volunteer Excitement among the Masses | 45 |
Forced to Volunteer The Politics of Compulation | 61 |
Discipline ans Desertion in Mexico | 83 |
Atrocity The Wage of Manifest Destiny | 113 |
Dreams of Conquest and the Limits of the White Mans Democracy | 139 |
Free Soil and the Heritage of the CitizenSoldier | 155 |
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