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Pages : 252
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In Perils by Mine Own Countrymen. Three Years on the Kansas Border. By a Clergyman of the Episcopal Church. [John MacNamara.]
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Languages : en
Pages : 252
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In Perils by Mine Own Countrymen. Three Years On the Kansas Border. by A Clergyman of the Episcopal Church.
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Publisher: University of Michigan Library
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Publisher: University of Michigan Library
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Three Years on the Kansas Border
Author: John McNamara
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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The Athenaeum
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Pages : 1640
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Pages : 1640
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The Prison of Democracy
Author: Sara M. Benson
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520296966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520296966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian Territory (1825–1854) and Bleeding Kansas (1854–1864), both sites of contestation over slavery and freedom. Author Sara M. Benson argues that Leavenworth reshaped the design of punishment in America by gradually normalizing state-inflicted violence against citizens. Leavenworth’s peculiar architecture illustrates the real roots of mass incarceration—as an explicitly race- and nation-building system that has been ingrained in the very fabric of US history rather than as part of a recent post-war racial history. The book sheds light on the truth of the painful relationship between the carceral state and democracy in the US—a relationship that thrives to this day.
Busy in the Cause
Author: Lowell J. Soike
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803273851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803273851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
The Genealogist's Virtual Library
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 9780842028646
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN: 9780842028646
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The growing availability of full-text books and journals on the Internet has made vast amounts of valuable genealogical information available at the touch of a button. The Genealogist's Virtual Library is a new volume that directs readers to the sites on the web that contain the full text of books.
Catalogue of Americana
Author: American Art Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Pages : 76
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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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