To the Halls of the Montezumas by Robert W Johannsen
For the romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican war was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legitimized the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world. This book examines the war's place in the popular imagination of the era. The Mexican War was the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press, as well as the first to be waged against an alien in a distant, strange, and exotic land. For mid-century Americans, the author shows, the war provided a window onto the outside world, promoting an awareness - if not an understanding - of a people and a land unlike any they had known before. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, the author recreates the mood and feeling of the period - its unbounded optimism and its patriotic pride.
An elegant analysis* History: Reviews of New Books *
Author of 'Stephen A. Douglas' (OUP 1973), winner of the Francis Parkman prize, and other books
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195049817 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195049810 |
| Title | To the Halls of the Montezumas |
| Author | Robert W Johannsen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 1988-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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