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MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848

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Benjamin, Thomas. "Recent Historiography of the Origins of the Mexican War." New Mexico Historical Review, 54 (July 1979), pp. 169-182.

Bochis, Hal W. "Caleb B. Smith's Opposition to the Mexican War." Indiana Magazine of History, 69 (June 1973), pp. 95-114.

Brack, Gene M. "Mexican Opinion, American Racism, and the War of 1846." Western History Quarterly, (April 1970), pp. .

Charnley, Jeffrey G. "'Swords into Plowshares': A Hope Unfulfilled: Michigan Opposition to the Mexican War, 1846-1848." Old Northwest, 8 (Fall 1982), pp. .

Ellsworth, C. S. "American Churches and the Mexican War." American Historical Review, 45 (January 1940), pp. 301-326.

Franklin, John Hope. "The Southern Expansionists of 1846." Journal of Southern History, (August 1959), pp. .

Fuller, John D. P. The Movement for the Acquisition of All Mexico. Baltimore: 1936.

Gilley, B. H. "'Polk's War' and The Louisiana Press." Louisiana History, 20 (Winter 1979), pp. 5-23.

-----. "Tennessee Whigs and the Mexican War." Tennessee Historical Quarterly, (Spring 1981), pp. 46-47.

Golden, Gurston. "Business Sentiment and the Mexican War." New York History, (January 1952), pp. .

Graebner, Norman A. "The Mexican War: A Study in Causation." Pacific Historical Review, 49 (August 1980), pp. 405-426.

Gruber, Robert H. "The Cross, Porter and Thornton Episodes: America's Inauspicious Entry Into the Mexican War." Military History of Texas and the Southwest, 12 (), pp. 186-201.

Lander, Ernest McPherson, Jr. Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, The South Carolinians, and the Mexican War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

-----. "The Reluctant Imperialist: South Carolina, the Rio Grande, and the Mexican War." Southwest Historical Quarterly, (January 1975), pp. 254-270.

McAfee, Ward. "A Reconsideration of the Origins of the Mexican-American War." Southern California Quarterly, 62 (Spring 1980), pp. .

Merk, Frederick. "Dissent in the Mexican War." Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings, 81 (1969), pp. 120-136.

Rives, George L. The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848. 2 vols. New York: 1913.

Smith, Ralph A. "Indians in American-Mexican Relations Before the War of 1846." Hispanic American Historical Review, 43 (February 1963), pp. 34-64.

Spurlin, Charles. "American Attitudes in the Mexican-American War." Military History of Texas and the Southwest, 12 (), pp. 84-92.

Weber, David J. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

-----. "American Westward Expansion and the Breakdown of Relations Between Pobladores and 'Indios Barbaros' on Mexico's Far Northern Frontier, 1821-1846." New Mexico Historical Review, 56 (July 1981), pp. 221-238.