360 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 3 maps
History / United States - Civil War Period | History / United States - Southern History
Rebels on the Border offers a remarkably compelling and significant study of the Civil War South’s highly contested and bloodiest border states: Kentucky and Missouri. By far the most complex examination to date, the book sharply focuses on the “borderland” between the free North and the Confederate South. As a result, Rebels on the Border deepens and enhances understanding of the sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
“Astor’s narrative is compellingly argued and spritely written....[an] impressive volume by a promising young scholar.”—Journal of American History
“A well-argued and researched volume by Aaron Astor....This important and unique contribution...enriches our understanding of slavery and war in the borderlands.”—Kansas History
"[A] well-crafted narrative.”—Choice
“Aaron Astor compellingly and definitively explains the political culture surrounding the Border South’s belated embrace of the Confederacy and its consequences for the region’s citizens, both white and African American. This volume stands to redefine Civil War and Border State studies.”—Anne E. Marshall, author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
“In this clearly and forcefully written study, employing meticulous research skills, Aaron Astor reconstructs an utterly realistic panorama of the era of the Civil War in the border states of Kentucky and Missouri. Far from a romantic portrait of racial progress, what emerges is a sobering account of the sustaining force of a white supremacist nation whose long-term effects still corrode American society.”—Michael Fellman, author of Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War
"A powerful corrective to the myth that slavery had little to do with the Civil War. This is a mature first book by an impressive young scholar.”—Christopher Phillips, author of The Making of a Southerner: William Barclay Napton's Private Civil War
“Fast-paced, sharply written, and deeply researched.”—Stanley Harrold, author of Border War: Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
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