Description |
xii, 346 pages ; 24 cm |
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Series |
Kansas Notable Book ; 2014.
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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"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
"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. |
Source |
NBK 7/14 PPL |
Subject |
Kansas -- History -- 1854-1861.
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Kansas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Borderlands -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
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Borderlands -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- Political aspects -- Missouri -- History -- 19th century.
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Added Author |
Earle, Jonathan Halperin.
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Burke, Diane Mutti.
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ISBN |
9780700619283 (hardback) |
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0700619283 (hardback) |
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9780700619290 (paper) |
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0700619291 (paper) |
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