A short, offhand, killing affair

soldiers and social conflict during the Mexican-American War

Describes how, instead of the promised prosperity, the enlisted soldiers for the United States in the Mexican War of 1846 reacted to their harsh treatment by pillaging in the Mexican countryside; and discusses the effect of these actions on the on racial tension in the nineteenth century.

University of North Carolina Press
2002
9780807854051
book

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363089369633702151839494955412BRHS114BRHS58951973.6 FOO973.616729293981708963493