Patriots, prostitutes, and spies : women and the Mexican-American War / by Belohlavek, John M.

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A short, offhand, killing affair : soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War / by Foos, Paul, 1959-

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Land uprising : Native story power and the insurgent horizons of Latinx indigeneity / by Trujillo, Simón Ventura

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Married to a daughter of the land : Spanish-Mexican women and interethnic marriage in California, 1820-1880 / by Casas, Maria Raquél

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Spanish women as cultural agents from medieval Spain to the new world frontier -- Class and marriage choices -- Marriage and the myth of romantic California -- The legal system and "a reckless breed of men" -- Interethnic marriages in the post-Mexican-American War era -- Epilogue.…”
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The politics of war powers : the theory & history of presidential unilateralism / by Burns, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Montesquieu's constitutionalism -- The critical period (1776-1787) -- The debate between the federalists and the antifederalists -- Washington, Jefferson, Madison : early debates over war powers -- Junior varsity imperialism : Mexican-American War through the Spanish American War -- The world wars -- The Cold War -- "The new world order" -- Creating the Rerror presidency -- The limited terror presidency.…”
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The Civil War and the limits of destruction / by Neely, Mark E., Jr

Table of Contents: “…Destructiveness in the Civil War -- The Mexican-American War: republicanism and the ethos of war -- Price's Raid: limited war in Missouri -- Emperor Maximilian's Black Decree: war in the tropics -- The Shenandoah Valley: Sheridan and the scorched earth -- The Sand Creek Massacre: the grand burning of the prairie -- Avenging Andersonville: retaliation and the political uses of hatred -- The cult of violence in Civil War history.…”
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The case for combat : how presidents persuade Americans to go to war / by Lordan, Edward J.

Table of Contents: “…Presidential war rhetoric : an overview -- The War of 1812 (1812-1815) -- The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) -- The Civil War (1861-1865) -- The Spanish-American War (1898) -- World War I (1914-1918) -- World War II (1941-1945) -- The Korean War (1950-1953) -- The Vietnam War (1964-1973) -- The Persian Gulf War (1991) -- The War on Terror (2001-?) …”
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Riding for the Lone Star : frontier cavalry and the Texas way of war, 1822-1865 / by Jennings, Nathan A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Texans and nineteenth-century warfare -- Tribal warfare of colonial Tejas, 1822-1835 -- The war for Texian independence, 1835-1836 -- Conflicts of the early Texas Republic, 1836-1838 -- Conflicts of the middle Texas Republic, 1838-1840 -- Conflicts of the late Texas Republic, 1841-1845 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 -- Conflicts of antebellum Texas, 1846-1861 -- The war for Confederate independence, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Notes.…”
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The yellow rose : racial stratification in a Mexican American community / by Verdugo, Richard R.

Table of Contents: “…The demography of the Mexican-American population -- Fabens in years prior to Anglo arrival -- Anglo arrival: the Mexican-American War, land displacement, and the emergence of a segmented labor force -- Land, economics, and labor: the emergence of the Chicano working class -- Background and characteristics of the Fabens population -- Education and the schools -- Business and the consumer -- The influentials: community leadership and decision-making -- Wealth, poverty, and ideology in Fabens -- Appendices -- Agriculture -- Crops -- Labor and mechanization -- Farm economics.…”
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In the wake of war : military occupation, emancipation, and Civil War America / by Lang, Andrew F., 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the Republican tradition, military occupation, and Civil War history -- Conflicting cultures and the Mexican-American War -- Policy, process, and the landscape of Union occupation during the Civil War -- Union soldiers and the symbol of a standing army of occupation -- Informal economies and the strains of Republican disinterestedness -- The irregular war, guerrilla violence, and counterinsurgency -- Lincoln's proclamation and the white racial assumptions of wartime occupation -- Racial authority, cultural change, and black wartime military occupation -- Republicanism, race, and the problem of postwar occupation -- Military reconstruction and the fate of union.…”

Olde New Mexico / by Morritt, Robert D.

Table of Contents: “…The Clovis culture -- Timeline of New Mexico history -- Pueblo people -- Coronado -- Early El Paso -- Juan de Oñate --Chichimeca -- The Florentine Codex -- Quivera -- Gasper Perez de Villagra -- Diego de Vargas -- Early frontiersmen -- The Apache wars -- The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 -- New Mexico-The Spanish era -- The Los Lunas Hebrew inscription -- The Navajos -- Na Dene and Proto-Athabaskan -- The Pueblos of Pecos -- Din'eh (Navajo) legends -- The Moqui Indians -- Zuni (Zuñi) Pueblo -- New Mexico-Early traders --The Spanish trail -- Territorial period -- Mexican-American War -- The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo -- Fort Uniion -- Fort Craig -- New Mexico territory -- New Mexico-Civil War -- Billy the Kid -- Pat Garrett.…”
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Not in our name : American antiwar speeches, 1846 to the present /

Table of Contents: “…Mexican-American War. Theodore Parker delivers "A sermon of war" ; Charles Sumner calls for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico ; Abraham Lincoln inveighs against President Polk -- Civil War. …”
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Santa Anna of Mexico / by Fowler, Will, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Between the volcano and the sea, 1794-1810 -- An officer and a gentleman, 1810-1821 -- Liberator of Veracruz, founder of the Republic, 1821-1823 -- The making of a caudillo, 1823-1832 -- A federalist on the periphery, 1823-1825 -- Among the Jarochos, 1825-1828 -- General of tricks, 1828-1832 -- The return of the phoenix, 1832-1841 -- The absentee president, 1832-1835 -- The warrior president, 1835-1837 -- The landowner president, 1837-1841 -- A road paved with good intentions, 1841-1848 -- The Santanista Project, 1841-1844-- Our man in Havana, 1844-1846 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848-- The autumn of the patriarch, 1849-1876 --The man who would be king, 1849-1855 -- The general in his labyrinth, 1856-1876 -- "A Good Mexican."…”
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Santa Anna of Mexico / by Fowler, Will, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Between the volcano and the sea, 1794-1810 -- An officer and a gentleman, 1810-1821 -- Liberator of Veracruz, founder of the Republic, 1821-1823 -- The making of a caudillo, 1823-1832 -- A federalist on the periphery, 1823-1825 -- Among the Jarochos, 1825-1828 -- General of tricks, 1828-1832 -- The return of the phoenix, 1832-1841 -- The absentee president, 1832-1835 -- The warrior president, 1835-1837 -- The landowner president, 1837-1841 -- A road paved with good intentions, 1841-1848 -- The Santanista Project, 1841-1844-- Our man in Havana, 1844-1846 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848-- The autumn of the patriarch, 1849-1876 --The man who would be king, 1849-1855 -- The general in his labyrinth, 1856-1876 -- "A Good Mexican."…”
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Lincoln illuminated and remembered / by Harris, William C. 1933-

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Colonial racial capitalism /

Table of Contents: “…Harris -- Administration : the open secret of colonial racial capitalist violence -- In search of the next El Dorado : mining for capital in a frontier market with colonial legacies / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- "Don't arrest me, arrest the police" : policing as the street administration of colonial racial capitalist orders / Lisa Marie Cacho and Jodi Melamed -- Policing solidarity : race, violence, and the University of Puerto Rico / Marisol LeBrón -- Programming colonial racial capitalism : encoding human value in smart cities / Brian Jordan Jefferson -- Aesthetics : reimagining the sites of cultural memory -- Nuclear antipolitics and the queer art of logistical failure / Iyko Day -- Erasing empire : remembering the Mexican-American War in Los Angeles / Laura Pulido -- Rehearsing for the future -- Racial capitalism now : a conversation with Michael Dawson and Ruth Wilson Gilmore / facilitated by Brian Jefferson and Jodi Melamed.…”
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Literary culture and U.S. imperialism : from the Revolution to World War II / by Rowe, John Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Literary culture and U.S. imperialism -- The dream of enlightenment and the nightmare of imperialism: Charles Brockden Brown;s Wieland and Edgar Huntly -- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier -- Melville's Typee: U.S. imperialism at home and abroad -- Highway robbery: "Indian removal," the Mexican American War, and the American identity in John Rollin Ridge's (Yellow Bird) The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta -- Mark Twain's rediscovery of America in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Race, gender, and imperialism in Stephen Crane: A Monstrous Case -- The Education of Henry Adams and the American empire -- W.E.B. …”
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American Catholics and the quest for equality in the Civil War era / by Curran, Robert Emmett

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: All Should Have an Equal Chance -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican-American War and Catholic Loyalty -- 2. The Remaking of the Catholic Community and Nativist Backlash -- 3. …”
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American Catholics and the quest for equality in the Civil War era / by Curran, Robert Emmett

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: All Should Have an Equal Chance -- Introduction -- 1. The Mexican-American War and Catholic Loyalty -- 2. The Remaking of the Catholic Community and Nativist Backlash -- 3. …”
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Latino Americans : the 500-year legacy that shaped a nation.

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