To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American ImaginationOxford University Press, 21/01/1988 - 662 páginas For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself. |
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... fought on succes- sive days , May 8 and 9 , the first on the plain of Palo Alto and the second at a palm - filled ravine known as Resaca de la Palma . Although outnumbered , Taylor's army forced the withdrawal of the Mexicans from the ...
... fought on succes- sive days , May 8 and 9 , the first on the plain of Palo Alto and the second at a palm - filled ravine known as Resaca de la Palma . Although outnumbered , Taylor's army forced the withdrawal of the Mexicans from the ...
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... fought almost entirely in a strange and distant land . Mexico's tropical climate , its wild and barren topography and exotic vegetation and wild- life , the unfamiliar ways of its people , the differences in language , customs , and ...
... fought almost entirely in a strange and distant land . Mexico's tropical climate , its wild and barren topography and exotic vegetation and wild- life , the unfamiliar ways of its people , the differences in language , customs , and ...
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... fought at Monterey and accompanied the army from Vera Cruz to Mexico City . He developed a close friendship with Nicholas Trist , Polk's peace emissary , and when Trist was recalled by the President it was Freaner who persuaded him to ...
... fought at Monterey and accompanied the army from Vera Cruz to Mexico City . He developed a close friendship with Nicholas Trist , Polk's peace emissary , and when Trist was recalled by the President it was Freaner who persuaded him to ...
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... fought , he wrote , for " practical liberty and progress , " fearless yet valuing life and seeking to protect it ; the Mexican soldier's existence , on the other hand , was " a mere strife for bread under military despotism . " Brave ...
... fought , he wrote , for " practical liberty and progress , " fearless yet valuing life and seeking to protect it ; the Mexican soldier's existence , on the other hand , was " a mere strife for bread under military despotism . " Brave ...
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... fought outside the conven- tional rules of warfare . They were charged with unspeakable cruelties and barbarities , with dispatching wounded soldiers on the battlefields , and with plundering the bodies of the slain on both sides ...
... fought outside the conven- tional rules of warfare . They were charged with unspeakable cruelties and barbarities , with dispatching wounded soldiers on the battlefields , and with plundering the bodies of the slain on both sides ...
Índice
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CHAPTER 3 The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue | 45 |
CHAPTER 4 Visions of Romance and Chivalry | 68 |
CHAPTER 5 A New Stock of Heroes | 108 |
CHAPTER 6 Travelers in a Foreign Land | 144 |
CHAPTER 7 A WarLiterature | 175 |
CHAPTER 8 Poetry and the Popular Arts | 204 |
CHAPTER 9 The Historians War | 241 |
CHAPTER 10 The War and the Republic | 270 |
A New Epoch in American History | 302 |
Notes | 313 |
Index | 353 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination Robert Walter Johannsen Pré-visualização limitada - 1985 |
To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination Robert W. Johannsen Pré-visualização limitada - 1988 |
To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination Robert Walter Johannsen Visualização de excertos - 1985 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adventure Ameri American Review American soldiers Aztec Battle of Buena battlefield became Buena Vista camp Campaign in Mexico Charles chivalry Cincinnati civilians civilization conflict conquest Cortez Cruz Democratic Review Doniphan's enemy fighting fought George George Lippard glory Graham's Magazine Henry heroes heroic heroism historian honor Indians James Fenimore Cooper John Journal July June land Lippard Literary World literature Littell's Living Age March ment Mexi Mexican Mexican War Mexico City military mission Monterey Montezuma National Register newspaper Niles officer Oswandel Palma Palo Alto patriotism peace Philadelphia poem poetry Polk popular Prescott published race Regiment republic republican Revolution romantic scenes seemed Sept Simms song Southern Literary Messenger Southern Quarterly Review Spanish spirit Taylor's army Texas Thomas Bangs Thorpe tion troops United Vera Cruz victories vols volunteers war's Whig William William Hickling Prescott Winfield Scott writer wrote York Herald Zachary Taylor
Passagens conhecidas
Página 109 - Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Página 70 - But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Página 103 - Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's sweet and kindly voices, And jarrest the celestial harmonies...
Página 38 - Not a single one over thirty years of age. •The second First-day morning they were brought out in squads and massacred, it was beautiful early summer, The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight. None...
Página 103 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts; The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 218 - They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an
Página 242 - ... the cloud? It is yet free and indestructible ; can as little be bound in chains as the aspiring flame ; and, when once generated, takes eternity for its guardian. We are the children and the heirs of the past...
Página 98 - Albany, from which place I had a good view of all that occurred. It was a ' sight to see!' The tall ships of war sailing leisurely along under their top-sails, their decks thronged in every part with dense masses of troops, whose bright muskets and bayonets were flashing in the sunbeams; the...
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Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public ... Otto Santa Ana Pré-visualização limitada - 2002 |
Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War Richard Bruce Winders Pré-visualização limitada - 1997 |