Author: Dean B. Mahin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786402588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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On May 14, 1846, the U.S. Congress declared that the country was at war with Mexico. Despite protestations to the contrary, the primary purpose of U.S. President James K. Polk in executing the war was the acquisition of California. In 1847, Nicholas P. Trist was sent on a diplomatic mission to deliver Polk's peace terms to the Mexican president, Santa Ana. Angered by the Mexican government's rejection of his terms, Polk issued a recall order in November which Trist chose to ignore. He eventually negotiated a settlement on February 2, 1848, that contained nearly everything that Polk had hoped for. This diplomatic history of America's first foreign war focuses on Trist's efforts and the policies of the Polk administration.

Author: Gaetano Rando
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9789052013831
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"This volume seeks to map an understanding of the Italian experience onto the broader picture of diasporic stories, though with an anchor in the Australian-Italian experience. It brings together key essays and testimonials that frame a picture of Italy's rich legacy at "home", in Europe more widely, and in the (post)colonial sphere, with a particular emphasis on the Australian experience. The essays collected here focus on the way an Italian Australian story has emerged and evolved in its own unique way. In some respects it might be possible to define Australia, through this community, as an Italian space, very much inscribed and described by the many voices that characterise it. What is clear throughout these pages is that past, present and future circulate through and around each other, just as notions of nation - colonial, postcolonial, emigrant and immigrant - jostle for purchase in what is in fact a contested space always under negotiation." --Back cover.

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Category : Alcohol
Languages : en
Pages : 996

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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 1782

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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. NORTH INDIANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Cynthia Vanden Driesen
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Category : Asians
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Contributed articles presented at the conference organized by Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia.

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Category : Ship registers
Languages : en
Pages : 664

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Author: Trade Board of
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Languages : en
Pages : 664

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