Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000278907/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract ""Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legitimized the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world. It was easily one of the most popular wars the United States has ever fought. This rich cultural history examines the war's place in the popular imagination of the era. As Robert Johannsen notes, the Mexican War was the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press, as well as the first to be waged against an alien foe in a distant, strange, and exotic land. For mid-century Americans, Johannsen shows, the war provided a window onto the outside world, promoting an awareness--if not an understanding--of a people and a land unlike any they had known before. The war helped to dispel some of the mystery of Mexico, as it generated a huge flood of popular literature, poetry, songs, art, and stage plays. Would-be historians began chronicling the war almost as soon as the first shots were fired, and the war provoked myriad questions about the true nature and purposes of the republic. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride. The book's unique perspective not only adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Mexican War; it offers new insights into American itself.--Publisher description.".
• catalog contributor b312893.
• catalog created "1985.".
• catalog date "1985".
• catalog date "1985.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1985.".
• catalog description ""Our country has entered on a new epoch of its history," wrote a Whig Party journal in 1849, just after America's triumph in the Mexican War. Indeed, for that romantic generation of Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the Mexican War was a grand exercise in self-identity: it legitimized the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world. It was easily one of the most popular wars the United States has ever fought. This rich cultural history examines the war's place in the popular imagination of the era. As Robert Johannsen notes, the Mexican War was the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press, as well as the first to be waged against an alien foe in a distant, strange, and exotic land. For mid-century Americans, Johannsen shows, the war provided a window onto the outside world, promoting an awareness--if not an understanding--of a people and a land unlike any they had known before. The war helped to dispel some of the mystery of Mexico, as it generated a huge flood of popular literature, poetry, songs, art, and stage plays. Would-be historians began chronicling the war almost as soon as the first shots were fired, and the war provoked myriad questions about the true nature and purposes of the republic. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride. The book's unique perspective not only adds a new dimension to our understanding of the Mexican War; it offers new insights into American itself.--Publisher description.".
• catalog description "Bibliography: p. 313-352.".
• catalog description "Prologue: Washington, July 4, 1848 -- America's First Foreign War -- A Dare-Devil War Spirit -- The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue -- Visions of Romance and Chivalry -- A New Stock of Heroes -- Travelers in a Foreign Land -- A War-Literature -- Poetry and the Popular Arts -- The Historians' War -- The War and the Republic -- Epilogue: A New Epoch in American History.".
• catalog extent "xi, 363 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "To the halls of the Montezumas.".
• catalog identifier "0195035186 :".
• catalog identifier "0195049810 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "To the halls of the Montezumas.".
• catalog issued "1985".
• catalog issued "1985.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "To the halls of the Montezumas.".
• catalog subject "E404 .J64 1985".
• catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Art and the war.".
• catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Influence.".
• catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848 Literature and the war.".
• catalog subject "Mexican War, 1846-1848.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Washington, July 4, 1848 -- America's First Foreign War -- A Dare-Devil War Spirit -- The True Spirit of Patriot Virtue -- Visions of Romance and Chivalry -- A New Stock of Heroes -- Travelers in a Foreign Land -- A War-Literature -- Poetry and the Popular Arts -- The Historians' War -- The War and the Republic -- Epilogue: A New Epoch in American History.".
• catalog title "To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination / Robert W. Johannsen.".
• catalog type "text".