Peace with Mexico
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Undergraduate and above readers studying or taking courses on nineteenth-century American history
- Those interested in the Mexican-American War and early American foreign policy
- Writing students who want to study the structure and argumentative strategies of political pamphlets
- History teachers who need primary sources to support classroom discussion
Not a good fit for
- Beginners hoping for an accessible, comprehensive narrative history of the war
- Readers of pure literature with no interest in political or diplomatic topics
- Readers who need a Chinese translation and are unwilling to consult the English original
Reading tips
- Spend ten minutes first learning the timeline and main controversies of the Mexican-American War, then start the text.
- While reading, mark the author's core claims and the positions he rebuts, and trace the chain of argument.
- Read alongside other political pamphlets of the period and compare how different positions frame the terms of peace.
- After finishing, summarize in one paragraph the author's judgment on the costs of war and the bottom line for peace, to test your understanding.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) was a Swiss-born American statesman, diplomat and linguist. He moved to the United States at an early age and was long active in politics and diplomacy, serving as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and leaving his mark on the construction of the early republic's fiscal system. In his later years he turned to scholarship, focusing on the study of Native American languages, a shift that gave him both experience in public affairs and a humanistic scholarly concern. One work by him is held in this collection, Peace with Mexico; judging by its title, it is likely related to his diplomatic experience and Mexican affairs. Given the limited available public information, details of the work's background and style cannot be elaborated here. Overall, his writings largely address political, diplomatic and practical questions in plain language, emphasizing argument and exposition rather than literary elaboration.
