| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul Foos. A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair: Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-American War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. 223. Cloth $49.95, paper $18.95.

Although the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846–1848 has been an understudied topic in most U.S. history and literature courses, in recent years an emerging body of scholarship has focused on this "forgotten war" as an important episode of U.S. empire building. Much of this work connects empire building in Mexico to the reshaping of U.S. class, ethnic, and race relations, and it thereby underlines the historical relationships between U.S. foreign affairs and domestic divisions. This book by Paul Foos is a valuable contribution to these discussions, especially because of its insistence on military service as a form of labor.

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