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



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Autore: Fellman Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Inside war [[electronic resource] ] : the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War / / Michael Fellman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina: 973.7/478
Soggetto topico: Guerrillas - Missouri - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Missouri History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Underground movements
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Inside war  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-52505-3
0-19-802193-3
1-4237-3728-8
1-60129-776-9
0-19-506471-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465739603321
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