To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination / Robert W. Johannsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johannsen, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1925-2011, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican War, 1846-1848--Influence.

Mexican War, 1846-1848.

Mexican War, 1846-1848--Literature and the war.

Mexican War, 1846-1848--Art and the war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (662 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press Incorporated, 1985

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

Contents

PROLOGUE: Washington, July 4, 1848

CHAPTER 1: America's First Foreign War

CHAPTER 2: A Dare-Devil War Spirit

CHAPTER 3: The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue

CHAPTER 4: Visions of Romance and Chivalry

CHAPTER 5: A New Stock of Heroes

CHAPTER 6: Travelers in a Foreign Land

CHAPTER 7: A War-Literature

CHAPTER 8: Poetry and the Popular Arts

CHAPTER 9: The Historians' War

CHAPTER 10: The War and the Republic

EPILOGUE A: New Epoch in American History

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-19-028147-2

9786610440016

1-4237-3618-4

1-60129-661-4

OCLC:

908078472