9781606352700-1606352709-Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri (The Civil War Era in the South)

Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri (The Civil War Era in the South)

ISBN-13: 9781606352700
ISBN-10: 1606352709
Edition: First Edition
Author: Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781606352700
ISBN-10: 1606352709
Edition: First Edition
Author: Joseph M. Beilein Jr.
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: The Kent State University Press
Format: Hardcover 304 pages

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Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri (The Civil War Era in the South) (ISBN-13: 9781606352700 and ISBN-10: 1606352709), written by authors Joseph M. Beilein Jr., was published by The Kent State University Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Civil War (United States History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Bushwhackers: Guerrilla Warfare, Manhood, and the Household in Civil War Missouri (The Civil War Era in the South) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Civil War books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.03.

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Bushwhackers adds to the growing body of literature that examines the various irregular conflicts that took place during the American Civil War. Author Joseph M. Beilein Jr. looks at the ways in which several different bands of guerrillas across Missouri conducted their war in concert with their house- holds and their female kin who provided logistical support in many forms. Whether noted fighters like Frank James, William Clarke Quantrill, and “Bloody Bill” Anderson, or less well-known figures such as Clifton Holtzclaw and Jim Jackson, Beilein provides a close examination of how these warriors imagined themselves as fighters, offering a brand-new interpretation that gets us closer to seeing how the men and women who participated in the war in Missouri must have understood it.

Beilein answers some of the tough questions: Why did men fight as guerrillas? Where did their tactics come from? What were their goals? Why were they so successful? Bushwhackers demonstrates that the guerrilla war in Missouri was not just an opportunity to settle antebellum feuds, nor was it some collective plummet by society into a state of chaotic bloodshed. Rather, the guerrilla war was the only logical response by men and women in Missouri, and one that was more in keeping with their worldview than the conventional warfare of the day.

As guerrilla conflicts rage around the world and violence remains closely linked with masculine identity here in America, this look into the past offers timely insight into our modern world and several of its current struggles.

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