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Book Review


A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States. By Timothy J. Henderson. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xxii, 216 pp. $25.00, ISBN 978-0-8090-6120-4.)
Almost all English-language histories of the Mexican War of 1846–1848 are battlefield studies, biographies, or analyses of American wartime opinion. Few neglect entirely the Mexican side of events, yet they tend to generalize about Mexican motives and domestic politics. Timothy J. Henderson's A Glorious Defeat does just the opposite by concentrating on Mexico and, by way of comparison, offering generalizations about the United States. . . .
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