To the halls of the Montezumas : the Mexican War in the American imagination
1985, First Edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #479806
ISBN: 0195035186
Physical description; xi, 363 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; America's First Foreign War -- 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. Subjects; Mexican War, 1846-1848 Influence. Mexican War, 1846-1848 Literature and the war. War and literature.
Price: €25.00