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Author:

Wheelan, Joseph.

Title:

Invading Mexico : America's continental dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 / Joseph Wheelan.

Edition:

1st Carroll & Graf ed.

Publisher:

Carroll & Graf,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xix, 490 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mexican War, 1846-1848.
United States--History--1815-1861.
Mexican War, 1846-1848.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780786717194
078671719X

LCCN:

2007298212

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)