Peacekeeping on the Plains : Army operations in bleeding Kansas /

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"Historians have written on "Bleeding Kansas" and on the frontier army as a constabulary force, but little scholarship exists on how the army performed its peacekeeping operations in the 1850s. In Peacekeeping on the Plains, Tony R. Mullis is one of the first scholars to detail the mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mullis, Tony R., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
Colección:Shades of blue and gray series.
Temas:
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
États-Unis. > Army > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States. > Army
1789-1899
Peacekeeping forces > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Violence > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Indians of North America > Government relations > 1789-1869.
Violence > Kansas > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Relations avec l'État > 1789-1869.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America > Government relations
Peacekeeping forces
Race relations
Slavery > Political aspects
Violence
Ethnische Beziehungen
Militär
Kansas > History, Military > 19th century.
Kansas > History > 1854-1861.
Kansas > Race relations.
Kansas > Histoire militaire > 19e siècle.
Kansas > Relations raciales.
Kansas
Frontier
History
Military history
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Great expectations, limited resources
  • Violent means and political ends: expansion and slavery collide in Kansas, 1854-1856
  • Peace enforcement: the Sioux Expedition of 1855
  • Peacemaking: Harney and the peace of Fort Pierre
  • Conflicting interests: peace, land, and speculation in territorial Kansas, 1854-1856
  • Peacekeeping and command, control, communications, and information during Bleeding Kansas
  • The guns of August: Kansas on the precipice of Civil War
  • Applying the tourniquet of peace: John Geary, the Army, and the election of 1856.

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