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Peacekeeping on the Plains : Army operations in bleeding Kansas

著者: Tony R Mullis
出版商: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2004.
丛书: Shades of blue and gray series.
版本/格式:   图书 : 州政府或者省政府刊物 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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"Historians have written on "Bleeding Kansas" and on the frontier army as a constabulary force, but little scholarship exists on how the army performed its peacekeeping operations in the 1850s. In Peacekeeping on the Plains, Tony R. Mullis is one of the first scholars to detail the military concerns associated with peace enforcement in Kansas and the trans-Missouri West." "Between 1854 and 1856, the Franklin Pierce
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附加的形体格式: Online version:
Mullis, Tony R., 1959-
Peacekeeping on the Plains.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004
(OCoLC)607459326
材料类型: 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物
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所有的著者/提供者: Tony R Mullis
ISBN: 0826215351 9780826215352
OCLC号码: 54677599
描述: xvii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: Great expectations, limited resources --
Violent means and political ends: expansion and slavery collide in Kansas, 1854-1856 --
Peace enforcement: the Sioux Expedition of 1855 --
Peacemaking: Harney and the peace of Fort Pierre --
Conflicting interests: peace, land, and speculation in territorial Kansas, 1854-1856 --
Peacekeeping and command, control, communications, and information during Bleeding Kansas --
The guns of August: Kansas on the precipice of Civil War --
Applying the tourniquet of peace: John Geary, the Army, and the election of 1856.
丛书名: Shades of blue and gray series.
责任: Tony R. Mullis.
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"Historians have written on "Bleeding Kansas" and on the frontier army as a constabulary force, but little scholarship exists on how the army performed its peacekeeping operations in the 1850s. In Peacekeeping on the Plains, Tony R. Mullis is one of the first scholars to detail the military concerns associated with peace enforcement in Kansas and the trans-Missouri West." "Between 1854 and 1856, the Franklin Pierce administration called upon the U.S. Army to conduct a series of peace operations in the newly formed Kansas and Nebraska territories. The army responded to the president's call by successfully completing a mission against the Lakota Sioux in 1855 and by aiding civil authorities in the imposition of peace among competing factions in Kansas during 1856.".

"Although these police duties were not always popular with the soldiers that conducted them, the purpose behind them remained constant - the maintenance of peace, order, and security. Given Americans' misgivings about a standing army and their limited expectations for it as a domestic peacekeeper, its use in this fashion during the 1850s was a delicate proposition.".

"By drawing on diverse sources, including official army correspondence, personal papers of key military and political leaders, and local accounts of army activities, Mullis shows how peace operations were conducted by the U.S. Army long before the second half of the twentieth century. He also presents a thorough analysis of the professional dilemmas confronted by army officers, as well as the delicate command and control issues associated with the different types of peace operations.".

"Mullis's assessment of the army's peacekeeping efforts in the mid-1850s offers a full understanding of the constraints and frustrations involved. Many of the dilemmas faced by the army in Kansas parallel those encountered in various spots around the globe today. Peacekeeping on the Plains will provide any reader with a better insight into the nuances of peace operations in the 1850s and assist military historians in their understanding of these activities as they relate to the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

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