Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel
Autore di Bleeding Borders: Race, Gender, and Violence in Pre-Civil War Kansas (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
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A native of Kansas City, Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel is Mary Frances Barnard Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century American History at the University of Tulsa.
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- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 24
- Popolarità
- #522,742
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 6
The writing is very readable, but it has the flavor on an academic book with frequent references to material covered by other historians. Because of the nature of the subject, it necessarily ends up describing scattered events and personalities which limits the emotional identification by the reader with stories in the book. Consequently, I suppose it will fail to capture the attention of the popular reading audience. Nevertheless, it tells the stories of many overlooked ordinary people who worked hard at living and surviving. These are stories that deserve to be told and remembered. Their hard work laid the foundation of our current civilization.… (altro)