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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465739603321

Autore

Fellman Michael

Titolo

Inside war [[electronic resource] ] : the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War / / Michael Fellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-52505-3

0-19-802193-3

1-4237-3728-8

1-60129-776-9

0-19-506471-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/478

Soggetti

Guerrillas - Missouri - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 267-313.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Maps and Illustrations; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Before the War; Political Economy; Popular Ideology; Chapter 2. Terror and a Sense of Justice: Civilians in Guerrilla War; Guerrilla Acts of Terror; Union Acts of Terror; A Sense of Justice; Loyalty, Neutralism, and Survival Lies; Collapse of the Sense of Security: Taking of Revenge; The Death of the Peculiar Institution; Flight; Chapter 3. Official Attitudes; Official Union Policy; Official Confederate Policy; Union Policy in the Field; Chapter 4. Brother Killers: Guerrillas and Union Troops; Guerrilla Self-Conceptions

Union Troops' Conceptions of Self and OthersThe Blurring of Combatants; Blood Sport; Blood Revenge; Chapter 5. Women as Victims and Participants; Participation; Fighters and Women; Family, Home, and Womanhood Undermined; Chapter 6. After the War; Postwar Violence and Reconstruction; The Legend of the Noble Guerrilla; Conclusion; Notes; Archival Source List; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z



Sommario/riassunto

During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from ""inside,"" drawing on a wealth of first-hand evidence, including letters, diaries, military reports, court-martial transcripts, depositions, and newspaper accounts. He gives us a

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Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00268599

Autore

Glashoff, Klaus

Titolo

Linear Optimization and Approximation : An Introduction to the Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Semi-infinite Programs / Klaus Glashoff, Sven-Åke Gustafson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer-Verlag, 1983

Titolo uniforme

Einführung in die lineare Optimierung

Descrizione fisica

ix, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Gustafson, Sven-Åke

Soggetti

41A50 - Best approximation, Chebyshev systems [MSC 2020]

46A20 - Duality theory for topological vector spaces [MSC 2020]

49-XX - Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization [MSC 2020]

49N15 - Duality theory (optimization) [MSC 2020]

65D32 - Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas [MSC 2020]

90-XX - Operations research, mathematical programming [MSC 2020]

90C05 - Linear programming [MSC 2020]

90C34 - Semi-infinite programming [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia