Bleeding Kansas Bleeding Missouri The Long Civil War On The Border
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780700619283
Description: "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"--