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

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

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Author / Creator:Johannsen, Robert W. (Robert Walter), 1925-2011
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Description:xi, 363 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Mexican War (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.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
War and literature.
Art.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/651170
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ISBN:0195035186 : $29.95
Notes:Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 313-352.
Table of 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

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