Bleeding Kansas, bleeding Missouri : the long Civil War on the border / edited by Jonathan Earle and Diane Mutti Burke.
"This multi-faceted study gives readers a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the violence that erupted--long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter--along the Missouri-Kansas border by blending the political and military with the social and intellectual history of the popul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2013]
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| Summary: | "This multi-faceted study gives readers a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the violence that erupted--long before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter--along the Missouri-Kansas border by blending the political and military with the social and intellectual history of the populace. The fifteen essays together explain why the divisiveness was so bitter and persisted so long, still influencing attitudes 150 years later"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780700619283 (hardback) 0700619283 (hardback) 9780700619290 (paper) 0700619291 (paper) |