![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one covers the story from the perspective of governance, no one follows the Kansas story more thoroughly, from inside the local scene out to the national level, and no work that I know of tracks the story through all of its sectional, partisan, and national institutional dimensions. Recommended."-CHOICE "Drawing on the current literature of politics and sectionalism in antebellum America, Ponce untangles the complex interactions between events inside and outside of Kansas Territory."-Kansas History "The work is original. ""This well-researched book explains all the political intricacies that made territorial Kansas so volatile-and the political mismanagement that helped bring on the Civil War."-The Journal of Southern History "Ponce's single greatest insight in this book is the lack of a political solution to the crisis of expansionism and slavery and the ease of resorting to war. ![]()
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