To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination /

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"Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johannsen, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1925-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Subjects:
1846-1848
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Influence.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Literature and the war.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Art and the war.
Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848.
Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848 > Influence.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
War and literature
Mexican War
Art
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Washington, July 4, 1848
  • America's First Foreign War
  • A Dare-Devil War Spirit
  • The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue
  • Visions of Romance and Chivalry
  • A New Stock of Heroes
  • Travelers in a Foreign Land
  • A War-Literature
  • Poetry and the Popular Arts
  • The Historians' War
  • The War and the Republic
  • Epilogue: A New Epoch in American History.

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