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A sinister splendor
Pairing extensive research with a brilliance for reviving the past in gripping narrative, Spur Award-winning author Mike Blakely has penned an epic novelization of the Mexican-American War in A Sinister Splendor. It's 1845. Texas joins the union and Mexico threatens war over the disputed Texas border. Meanwhile, expansionists dream of an America that sprawls all the way to the Pacific Coast. Can a conflict with an already war-torn Mexico satisfy this lust for territory? The Mexican-American War becomes the heroic proving ground for future Civil War generals and presidents of the United States, Mexico, and the Confederacy. But the glories of victory are tempered by the horrors of war--lives lost, bodies battered, souls shattered, dreams crushed, whole cities razed, and innocence forever dashed.
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War of a Thousand Deserts
In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called \"the barbarians\" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids claimed thousands of lives, ruined much of northern Mexico's economy, depopulated its countryside, and left man-made \"deserts\" in place of thriving settlements. Just as important, this vast interethnic war informed and emboldened U.S. arguments in favor of seizing Mexican territory while leaving northern Mexicans too divided, exhausted, and distracted to resist the American invasion and subsequent occupation.
Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars,War of a Thousand Desertsrecovers the surprising and previously unrecognized ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. In the process this ambitious book offers a rich and often harrowing new narrative of the era when the United States seized half of Mexico's national territory.
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From the Halls of the Montezumas : Mexican War dispatches from James L. Freaner, writing under the pen name \Mustang\
\"Book is a collection of the newspaper articles by James L. Freaner for the New Orleans Delta newspaper, sent from the Mexican American War during 1847-1848. The editors have added historical context and notes\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Vietnam Veteranos
One of the most decorated groups that served in the Vietnam War, Chicanos fought and died in numbers well out of proportion to their percentage of the United States’ population. Yet despite this, their wartime experiences have never received much attention in either popular media or scholarly studies. To spotlight and preserve some of their stories, this book presents substantial interviews with Chicano Vietnam veterans and their families that explore the men’s experiences in combat, the war’s effects on the Chicano community, and the veterans’ postwar lives. Lea Ybarra groups the interviews topically to bring out different aspects of the Chicano vets’ experiences. In addition to discussing their involvement in and views on the Vietnam War, the veterans also reflect on their place in American society, American foreign policy, and the value of war. Veterans from several states and different socioeconomic classes give the book a broad-based perspective, which Ybarra frames with sociological material on the war and its impact on Chicanos.
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The ghosts of Hero Street : how one small Mexican-American community gave so much in World War II and Korea
\"They came from one street, but death found them in many places...in a distant jungle, a frozen forest, and trapped in the flaming wreckage of a bomber blown from the sky. One died going over a fence during the greatest paratrooper assault in history. Another fell in the biggest battle of World War II. Yet another, riddled with bullets in an audacious act of heroism during a decisive onslaught a world, and a war, away. All came from a single street in a railroad town called Silvis, Illinois, a tiny stretch of dirt barely a block and a half long, with an unparalleled history. The twenty-two Mexican-American families who lived on that one street sent fifty-seven of their children to fight in World War II and Korea--more than any other place that size anywhere in the country. Eight of those children died. It's a distinction recognized by the Department of Defense, and it earned that rutted, unpaved strip a distinguished name. Today it's known as Hero Street. This is the story of those brave men and their families, how they fought both in battle and to be accepted in an American society that remained biased against them even after they returned home as heroes. Based on interviews with relatives, friends, and soldiers who served alongside the men, as well as personal letters and photographs, The Ghosts of Hero Street is the compelling and inspiring account of a street of soldiers--and men--who would not be denied their dignity or their honor\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Tejanos in Gray
Mexican Texans, fighting for the Confederate cause, in their own words . . .
The Civil War is often conceived in simplistic, black and white terms: whites from the North and South fighting over states’ rights, usually centered on the issue of black slavery. But, as Jerry Thompson shows in Tejanos in Gray, motivations for allegiance to the South were often more complex than traditional interpretations have indicated.
Gathered for the first time in this book, the forty-one letters and letter fragments written by two Mexican Texans, Captains Manuel Yturri and Joseph Rafael de la Garza, reveal the intricate and intertwined relationships that characterized the lives of Texan citizens of Mexican descent in the years leading up to and including the Civil War. The experiences and impressions reflected in the letters of these two young members of the Tejano elite from San Antonio, related by marriage, provide fascinating glimpses of a Texas that had displaced many Mexican-descent families after the Revolution, yet could still inspire their loyalty to the Confederate flag. De la Garza, in fact, would go on to give his life for the Southern cause.
The letters, translated by José Roberto Juárez and with meticulous annotation and commentary by Thompson, deepen and provide nuance to our understanding of the Civil War and its combatants, especially with regard to the Tejano experience. Historians, students, and general readers interested in the Civil War will appreciate Tejanos in Gray for its substantial contribution to borderlands studies, military history, and the often-overlooked interplay of region, ethnicity, and class in the Texas of the mid-nineteenth century.
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Devotion to the adopted country : U.S. immigrant volunteers in the Mexican War
\"[This book] looks at efforts of America's Democratic Party and Catholic leadership to use the service of immigrant volunteers in the U.S.-Mexican War as a weapon against nativism and anti-Catholicism\"--Jacket.
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Essentials. Timelines. The Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War (1846–1848) was a pivotal conflict driven by territorial disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, culminating in a dramatic expansion of U.S. territory.
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Los orígenes globales del probabilismo
Frente a una historiografía tradicional que, hasta fecha reciente, ha tendido a explicar el origen del probabilismo a partir de obras escritas en el contexto académico europeo, este artículo explora obras y ámbitos de diversa índole. Concede, en particular, en una nueva explicación global de la emergencia progresiva del probabilismo como doctrina teológica y método para la resolución de casos, una gran atención al uso de los argumentos probables en obras de la literatura misional americana y escritos de teología moral producidos en el contexto cambiante de las décadas centrales del siglo XVI. El análisis realizado permite al lector entender, en primer lugar, la centralidad que ya en el pensamiento económico y evangelizador de Vitoria presenta la evaluación de alternativas probables a la hora de enfrentarse a contextos poco conocidos y dudas inéditas. Como mostramos en este artículo se trata de una tendencia que discípulos salmantinos posteriores como los teólogos ‘novohispanos’ Alonso de la Vera Cruz o Tomás de Mercado radicalizarán apelando a la necesidad de seguir opiniones meramente probables y, en ocasiones, mayoritariamente refutadas por sus colegas europeos, a la hora de traducir a una amplia serie de problemáticas específicamente modernas (como la evaluación de las costumbres familiares o matrimoniales de los pueblos indígenas americanos o de prácticas frecuentes en la economía transatlántica como el cambio o la venta al fiado) la normatividad moral y religiosa precedente, de cuño marcadamente europeo.
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