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Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848
- Title
- Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / Joseph Wheelan.
- Author
- Wheelan, Joseph.
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IIN 07-2919 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- xix, 490 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.
- Contents
- Cast of characters -- Prologue -- "The mole" -- The dynamo -- The Pacific dream -- The Lone Star Republic -- To manufacture a war -- The army and the border -- The negotiations that never were -- The war begins -- "A state of war exists" -- The explorer and the marine -- Testing the enemy -- A question of "peculiar delicacy" -- Zachary Taylor's army -- Monterrey -- The war in the West -- America's Xenophon -- Planning a second front -- Dissent, patriotism, and the press -- Buena Vista -- The war in Congress -- Scott's epic march begins -- Planning the end game -- Closing in on the prize -- The halls of Montezuma -- Frustration -- Peace at last -- Afterword -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- IIN 07-2919
- ISBN
- 078671719X
- 9780786717194
- OCLC
- 84854578
- Author
- Wheelan, Joseph.
- Title
- Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / Joseph Wheelan.
- Imprint
- New York : Carroll & Graf, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IIN 07-2919