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Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border
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Description for Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Border
Hardcover. Focuses on the violence that erupted--long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter--along the Missouri-Kansas border. Blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the divisiveness was so bitter and persisted so long, still influencing attitudes 150 years later. Editor(s): Earle, Jonathan H.; Burke, Diane Mutti. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had ?already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the region’s divisiveness was so bitter and persisted for so long. Providing a more nuanced understanding of the conflict, it defines both what united ... Read more
Long before the first shot of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter, violence had ?already erupted along the Missouri-Kansas border—a recurring cycle of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and revenge. This multifaceted study brings together fifteen scholars to expand our understanding of this vitally important region, the violence that besieged it, and its overall impact on the Civil War.
Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri blends political, military, social, and intellectual history to explain why the region’s divisiveness was so bitter and persisted for so long. Providing a more nuanced understanding of the conflict, it defines both what united ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700619283
SKU
V9780700619283
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About
Jonathan Earle is an associate professor at the University of Kansas, USA and the author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil and John Brown’s Raid: A Brief History with Documents. Diane Mutti Burke is an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA and the author of On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small-Slaveholding ... Read more
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