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Lädt ... California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850von Neal Harlow
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This book began as a venture to collect official and unofficial documents relating to the interval of American military rule. There proved to be thousands, the writings of Presidents, executive officers, and congressmen, naval and military personnel, governors, settlers, and citizens-routine, familiar, wheedling, seductive, blustering, commanding. As the quantity grew, they seemed eager to be heard. But the documents exhibit the traits of their makers. Containing neither the whole truth nor nothing but the truth, they offer many-sided versions of what people believed or wanted others to accept; they must be taken with a grain of salt. Long, sometimes garbled, and always incomplete, the record requires assessment, a referee to appraise the evidence and form his own imperfect conclusions. And any curious or dissenting reader may, by consulting the numerous cited sources, make his own interpretations. References, whenever possible, have been made to materials in some printed form, leading an inquirer to a vast array of historical evidence. Everything herein happened, or so the record tells, and if an assumption has been made, it is that men, issues, and events can be interesting in their own right, without exaggeration. "To exaggerate," a knowing urban child recently observed, "means you put in something to make it more exciting" (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 1978). Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Although not central to the book, the author has repeated references to the assertion that the Mexican-American war was the final act in a deliberate ploy to seize the northern territories of Mexico (one of my key take-aways is to learn more about that war). In this day of endless war, occupation and “nation-building” its interesting to see how the US approached the later two in the context of seizing and absorbing a new state. Another fascinating tidbit came at the end of the book during the discussion of the constitutional convention, and the setting of the State’s eastern border. This was far more arbitrary than I ever thought—and at least as presented here, was based more on potential future division of the state than just about anything else.
(2016 Review #12) ( )