| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Irving W. Levinson. Wars within Wars: Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. 2005. Pp. xviii, 173. $29.95.
The U.S.-Mexican War exercised an enormous impact on the later development of both belligerent states. The U.S. invasion and occupation of northern Mexico and Mexico City forced the weaker nation to cede half of its expanse and left its political classes demoralized and badly fractured, so much so that they fought their own extended civil war in the 1860s. The United States became a transcontinental behemoth, but victory brought its own costs: a decade later, the question of slavery's extension into its vast new territory tore the nation apart.	1
Neither Mexican nor U.S. historians have given the U.S.-Mexican War—or the "North American Invasion," as it is known in Mexico—the attention that it deserves, perhaps because the conflicts of the 1860s were even more important to national identities and historiographical traditions alike. In this context, Irving W. Levinson's focused study of division and conflict within Mexico during the war raises important questions to which all scholars of Mexico and the United States in this period should pay attention.	. . .

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