Bleeding Kansas, bleeding Missouri : the long Civil War on the border /

"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 v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Earle, Jonathan Halperin (Editor ), Burke, Diane Mutti (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Temas:
1800-1899
Borderlands > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Borderlands > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Régions frontalières > Missouri > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Régions frontalières > Kansas > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Social aspects
Borderlands
Slavery > Political aspects
Kansas > History > 1854-1861.
Kansas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Missouri > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Missouri > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social.
Kansas
Missouri
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Revisiting the Long Civil War on the Border / Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke
  • 1. "I Came Not to Bring Peace, but a Sword": The Christian War God and the War of All against All on the Kansas-Missouri Border / Michael Fellman
  • Part I. Slavery and Politics of Law and Order along the Border:
  • 2. Before the Border Wars: Slavery and the Settlement of the Western Frontier, 1825-1845 / Kristen K. Epps
  • 3. The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the "Crisis in Law and Order" / Nicole Etcheson
  • 4. "Nigger-worshipping fanatics" and "villain[s] of the blackest dye": Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates / Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
  • 5. "The Noise of Democracy:" The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas / Pearl T. Ponce
  • Part II. Making the Border Bleed:
  • 6.
  • The Illusion of Security: The Governments' Response to the Jayhawker Threat of Late 1860 / Tony R. Mullis
  • 7. 'If I Went West, I Think I Would Go To Kansas': Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle
  • 8. "A Question of Power Not One of Law": Federal Occupation and the Politics of Loyalty in the Western Border Slave States during the American Civil War / Christopher Phillips
  • 9. "Slavery Dies Hard": Enslaved Missourians' Struggle for Freedom / Diane Mutti Burke
  • 10. The Guerrilla Shirt: A Labor of Love and the Style of Rebellion in Civil War Missouri / Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
  • Part III. The Border War Reconstructed and Remembered:
  • 11. The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in Post-Civil War Western Missouri / Aaron Astor
  • 12. "We Promise to Use the Ballot as We Did the Bayonet": Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri / John W. McKerley
  • 13. "A Little Different than in Alabama": Sectional Narratives and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence / Brent M.S. Campney
  • 14. The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Missouri-Kansas Border War, Fifty Years On / Jeremy Neely
  • 15. "William Quantrill Is My Homeboy," Or, The Border War Goes to College / Jennifer L. Weber.

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