Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri : Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Missouri /

"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
Otros Autores: Burke, Diane Mutti (Editor ), Earle, Jonathan Halperin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery > Political aspects.
Borderlands.
Social aspects.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Regions frontalieres > Kansas > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Regions frontalieres > Missouri > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Borderlands > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Borderlands > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Kansas > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > Missouri > History > 19th century.
Missouri.
Kansas.
Missouri > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Aspect social.
Kansas > History > 1854-1861.
Kansas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
Missouri > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: "The Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border" / Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke
  • "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
  • Before the Border Wars: Slavery and the Settlement of the Western Frontier, 1825-1845 / Kristen K. Epps
  • The Goose Question: The Proslavery Party in Territorial Kansas and the "Crisis in Law and Order" / Nicole Etcheson
  • "Nigger-worshipping fanatics" and "villain[s] of the blackest dye": Racialized Manhoods and the Sectional Debates / Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
  • "The Noise of Democracy:" The Lecompton Constitution in Congress and Kansas / Pearl Ponce
  • Part II: Making the Border Bleed
  • The Illusion of Security: The Governments' Response to the Jayhawker Threat of Late 1860 / Tony R. Mullis
  • 'If I Went West, I Think I Would Go To Kansas': Abraham Lincoln, the Sunflower State, and the Election of 1860 / Jonathan Earle
  • "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
  • "Slavery Dies Hard": Enslaved Missourians' Struggle for Freedom / Diane Mutti Burke
  • 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
  • The Lexington Weekly Caucasian: White Supremacist Discourse in post-Civil War Western Missouri / Aaron Astor
  • Black Suffrage Activism and the Limits of Loyalty in Reconstruction Missouri / John W. McKerley
  • "A Little Different than in Alabama": Sectional Narratives and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence / Brent M.S. Campney
  • The Quantrill Men Reunions: The Missouri-Kansas Border War, Fifty Years On / Jeremy Neely
  • "William Quantrill Is My Homeboy," Or, The Border War Goes to College / Jennifer L. Weber
  • List of Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index.

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