The Mexican-American War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1846-48 American war against Mexico, in which America won over a million square kilometres of Mexican territory, including California.
Melvyn and guests discuss the 1846-48 conflict after which the United States of Mexico lost half its territory to the United States of America. The US gained land covered by the states of Texas, Utah, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and part of Colorado. The outcome had a profound impact on Native Americans and led to civil war in defeated Mexico. It also raised the question of whether slavery would be legal in this acquired territory - something that would only be resolved in the US Civil War, which this victory hastened.
With
Frank Cogliano
Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh
Jacqueline Fear-Segal
Professor of American and Indigenous Histories at the University of East Anglia
And
Thomas Rath
Lecturer in Latin American History at University College London
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
James E. Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican WarΜύ(Yale University Press, 2009)
Will Fowler, Santa Anna of Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
Amy Greenberg, A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of MexicoΜύ(Vintage, 2013)
Peter Guardino, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American WarΜύ(Harvard University Press, 2017)
S. C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Constable, 2011)
Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire: A Study of Indigenous Power, 1700-1875 (Yale University Press, 2009)
Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Robert W. Merry, A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent (Simon & Schuster, 2010)
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (first published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Government; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014)
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | Frank Cogliano |
| Interviewed Guest | Jacqueline Fear-Segal |
| Interviewed Guest | Thomas Rath |
| Producer | Simon Tillotson |
Broadcasts
- Thu 28 Jun 2018 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Thu 28 Jun 2018 21:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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