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So Far from God
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.95The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In... more...
Kearny's March
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 27.95In June 1846, General Stephen Watts Kearny rode out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, with two thousand soldiers, bound for California. At the time, the nation was hell-bent on expansion: James K. Polk had lately won the presidency by threatening England over the borders in Oregon, while Congress had just voted, in defiance of the Mexican government, to... more...
U.S.-Mexican War
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Controversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided the country's loyalties more than any event at the time since the Revolution. But the realities of the time were powerfully shaped by the belief in the myth of "Manifest Destiny"?that the United States was predestined to occupy the North American continent "from sea to shining... more...
Trailing Clouds of Glory
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 35.00This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor’s Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his “Army of Occupation” who became Confederate or Union generals in the Civil War. It clarifies what being a Mexican War veteran meant in their cases,... more...
The Training Ground
Little, Brown and Company 2008; US$ 14.99Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee. But less than two decades before they faced each other as enemies at Appomattox , they had been brothers--both West Point graduates, both wearing blue, and both fighting in the same cadre in the Mexican War. They were not alone: Sherman, Davis, Jackson -nearly... more...
Towards Modern Public Finance
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2008; US$ 99.00This is the first in-depth study to address the financing of the American-Mexican War of 1846?8. more...
The Mexican War
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 66.00Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts. Primary documents, biographical sketches and narrative chapters rounded out by twenty images and maps and a robust bibliography and index make this... more...
Mormon Battalion
Utah State University Press 1997; US$ 25.00Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon... more...
To the Halls of the Montezumas
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 30.00This book examines the Mexican war's place in the popular imagination of the era. more...
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