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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: short, offhand, killing affair
    sub title: soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War
  name:
    name part: Foos, Paul W.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Publisher's description: The 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 examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny.
  table of contents: The regular army and antebellum labor: service and servitude -- Citizens' militias in the United States -- Volunteer excitement among the masses -- Forced to volunteer: the politics of compulsion -- Discipline and desertion in Mexico -- Atrocity: the wage of manifest destiny -- Dreams of conquest and the limits of the white man's democracy -- Free soil and the heritage of the citizen-soldier.
  note: Paul Foos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: History
    temporal: Mexican War, 1846-1848
  subject:
    topic: Mexican War, 1846-1848
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Soldiers
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Military life
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Mexican War, 1846-1848
    topic: Influence
  classification: E409.2 .F66 2002
  classification: 973.6/28
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    origin info:
      publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
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  identifier: 0807827312 (alk. paper)
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  identifier: 0807854050 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 011226
    record change date: 20151024175909.0
    record identifier: in00001726527