A short introductory background precedes descriptions of the battles in northeast Mexico. So Far from God is the latest of several narrative overviews of this war of expansion, a conflict which has in recent years attracted growing public interest in the United States.Įisenhower organizes the thirty chapters of So Far from God along both chronological and geographic lines. Eisenhower’s narrative history of the 1846-1848 war first appeared in 1989, published by Random House, and is now released by the University of Oklahoma Press. A graduate of Annapolis, he is retired from the U.S. Castleman, lecturer in the History Department, San Diego State University and historian of colonial Mexico, is currently writing a book analyzing labor market trends in eighteenth-century Mexico. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, xvii plus 436 pages. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
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