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Book Travels and Adventures in Mexico

Download or read book Travels and Adventures in Mexico written by William W. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiences of the author in the Mexican war and after his capture near Monterey in 1847.

Book Independent Mexico

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  • Author : Will Fowler
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 0803225393
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Independent Mexico written by Will Fowler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’état, these pronunciamientos were actually a complex form of insurrectionary action that relied first on the proclamation and circulation of a plan that listed the petitioners’ demands and then on endorsement by copycat pronunciamientos that forced the authorities, be they national or regional, to the negotiating table. In Independent Mexico, Will Fowler provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This fourth and final installment in, and culmination of, a larger exploration of the pronunciamiento highlights the extent to which this model of political contestation evolved. The result of more than three decades of pronunciamiento politics was the bloody Civil War of the Reforma (1858–60) and the ensuing French Intervention (1862–67). Given the frequency and importance of the pronunciamiento, this book is also a concise political history of independent Mexico.

Book Drayton

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  • Author : Thomas H. Shreve
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1851
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Drayton written by Thomas H. Shreve and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Yeast

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  • Author : Charles Kingsley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1851
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Yeast written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cosmos

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  • Author : Alexander von Humboldt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1851
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Cosmos written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Heir of Wast Wayland

Download or read book The Heir of Wast Wayland written by Mary Botham Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Southern Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Southern Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dead March

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  • Author : Peter Guardino
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-28
  • ISBN : 0674981847
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book The Dead March written by Peter Guardino and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize Winner of the Utley Prize Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History “The Dead March incorporates the work of Mexican historians...in a story that involves far more than military strategy, diplomatic maneuvering, and American political intrigue...Studded with arresting insights and convincing observations.” —James Oakes, New York Review of Books “Superb...A remarkable achievement, by far the best general account of the war now available. It is critical, insightful, and rooted in a wealth of archival sources; it brings far more of the Mexican experience than any other work...and it clearly demonstrates the social and cultural dynamics that shaped Mexican and American politics and military force.” —Journal of American History It has long been held that the United States emerged victorious from the Mexican–American War because its democratic system was more stable and its citizens more loyal. But this award-winning history shows that Americans dramatically underestimated the strength of Mexican patriotism and failed to see how bitterly Mexicans resented their claims to national and racial superiority. Their fierce resistance surprised US leaders, who had expected a quick victory with few casualties. By focusing on how ordinary soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict, The Dead March offers a clearer picture of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America.

Book A Short  Offhand  Killing Affair

Download or read book A Short Offhand Killing Affair written by Paul Foos and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to conquer an unfamiliar nation and people. Through an examination of rank-and-file soldiers, Paul Foos sheds new light on the war and its effect on attitudes toward other races and nationalities that stood in the way of American expansionism. Drawing on wartime diaries and letters not previously examined by scholars, Foos shows that the experience of soldiers in the war differed radically from the positive, patriotic image trumpeted by political and military leaders seeking recruits for a volunteer army. Promised access to land, economic opportunity, and political equality, the enlistees instead found themselves subjected to unusually harsh discipline and harrowing battle conditions. As a result, some soldiers adapted the rhetoric of Manifest Destiny to their own purposes, taking for themselves what had been promised, often by looting the Mexican countryside or committing racial and sexual atrocities. Others deserted the army to fight for the enemy or seek employment in the West. These acts, Foos argues, along with the government's tacit acceptance of them, translated into a more violent, damaging variety of Manifest Destiny.

Book Arctic Searching Expedition

Download or read book Arctic Searching Expedition written by Sir John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains journal of Richardson's and Dr. John Rae's 1848 expedition in search of Franklin expedition down Mackenzie River and east to Coppermine River. Includes chapters on Eskimos; Kutchin, Cree, and Chipewyan Indians; and Rae's descent of Coppermine River in 1849, also vocabularies of native languages.

Book Arctic Searching Expedition     in Search of     Sir John Franklin

Download or read book Arctic Searching Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin written by Sir John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Download or read book The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Villette

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  • Author : Charlotte Brontë
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
  • Release : 1853
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Villette written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1853 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1853, Villette draws from Charlotte Bronte's experiences in Brussels in the 1840's. In this emotionally charged tale, we see Lucy Snowe's response to the challenges of her restrictive social environment as she flees from her unhappy past in England to a new life as a teacher at Madame Beck's school in Villette. This new edition features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is derived from the earliest printings of Bront"e's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in depth analysis of the context of this fine example of the nineteenth century novel.

Book Home Pictures

Download or read book Home Pictures written by Mary Andrews Denison and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theory of Politics

Download or read book Theory of Politics written by Richard Hildreth and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: