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Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858
Craig Miner
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Description for Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858
Hardcover. Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press. This book offers a study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory, unearthing examples of what Americans were saying about Kansas and showing how those words affected the course of national events. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBNK; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 626.
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press, not to mention three sessions of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials - 4,500 in the ""New York Herald"" alone - were published about Bleeding Kansas during those four tumultuous years leading up to the Lecompton Constitution. Craig Miner now offers the first in-depth study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory, unearthing new examples of what Americans were saying about Kansas and showing how those words affected the course of national events.Miner draws on dozens of newspapers and ... Read more
Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Kansas Territory was a national issue that dominated America's press, not to mention three sessions of Congress. Hundreds of thousands of articles and editorials - 4,500 in the ""New York Herald"" alone - were published about Bleeding Kansas during those four tumultuous years leading up to the Lecompton Constitution. Craig Miner now offers the first in-depth study of national media coverage devoted to the beleaguered territory, unearthing new examples of what Americans were saying about Kansas and showing how those words affected the course of national events.Miner draws on dozens of newspapers and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700616121
SKU
V9780700616121
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About Craig Miner
Craig Miner, the ""dean of Kansas history,"" is Willard Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University and author of West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas; Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000; and, most recently, Next Year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas (see page 47).
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