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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Mexican War"”.
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Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.
… presents a reappraisal of the performance of the Mexican general officer corps during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
… interest were selected: banking, slavery, the Mexican War, the Compromise of 1850, the return of Jackson's fine and the dispute in Kansas. The thesis followed these issues through the legislative sessions 1838-1860. A study of voting behavior on the issues was compiled as indices of consensus …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
"This thesis examines the awareness and response of the slave states to the conditions and events in the Trans-Mississippi West from Texas Annexation through the Oregon Question, Mexican War, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850 to the Pacific Railroad and Gadsden Purchase. The people of the …
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Explorations in City Image: An Investigation of Tools of Perception and Representation in Urban Design
… design portion of this thesis takes place in the Mexican War Streets Neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and results in a plaza for the local Mattress Factory Art Museum. The design phase uses and evaluates traditional perception and representational tools of urban design. New creative maps …
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The John Slidell Mission : Mexico 1845-1846
… Mexico in the period before the outbreak of the Mexican War. Sent by President James K. Polk, Slidell ostensibly had a dual purpose: to repair the damage to U.S.-Mexican relations created by the annexation of Texas, and to purchase a large portion of what is now Southwest U.S. from Mexico. Polk …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
… revolutions in 1810 to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846. During this brief timespan, the nation’s literature featured a radical transition in which the independent republics of Latin America shifted from being viewed as “southern brethren” of the United States, a term used by such …
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Eugene Casserly His Political and Legal Career
… formative years of early statehood following the Mexican war. During the tfar between the States he stood firmly for the Union, urging allegiance and loyalty. As a Democrat in a Republican-dominated Senate for the first part of President Grant*s administration, Casserly steadfastly upheld …
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Do place-based interventions displace crime in cities? : an evaluation of two crime prevention strategies in Chihuahua, Mexico
… whose crime rates catapulted as a result of the Mexican War on Drugs. The first intervention considered here is that of gated communities, privately initiated responses that now house around a tenth of the total population of the city. The second intervention type studied centers on public sector …
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Senator John Brooks Henderson, U.S. Senator from Missouri
… in the state and nation on the eve of the Civil War. His political ascendancy in the state Democratic party parallels the splintering of party allegiances on the issues of: popular sovereignty, banks, slavery expansion, and the Mexican War. Henderson's attempts to win national office preceding …
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Senator John Brooks Henderson, U.S. Senator from Missouri
… in the state and nation on the eve of the Civil War. His political ascendancy in the state Democratic party parallels the splintering of party allegiances on the issues of: popular sovereignty, banks, slavery expansion, and the Mexican War. Henderson's attempts to win national office preceding …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
… and politics, influenced U.S. foreign policy toward Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Catholicism, the Roman Catholic Church, and monarchism/despotism were all seen by U.S. elites as interconnected forces that undermined the growth and stability of republicanism in …