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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777684203321

Autore

Keith Jeanette

Titolo

Rich man's war, poor man's fight [[electronic resource] ] : race, class, and power in the rural South during the first world war / / Jeanette Keith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908785-6-4

0-8078-7589-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

940.3/16

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Protest movements - Southern States

World War, 1914-1918 - Draft resisters - Southern States

Social classes - Southern States - History - 20th century

Farmers - Southern States - Political activity - History - 20th century

Dissenters - Southern States - History - 20th century

Southern States Race relations

Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945

Southern States Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Southern Antimilitarists on the Eve of War; 2. Which War, Whose Fight?: White Southerners Debate the Declaration of War and the Draft, 1917; 3. Fathers, Farmers, and Christians; 4. Agrarian Protest Begins; 5. Race, Class, Gender, and Draft Dodging; 6. The Surveillance State Comes to Rural Shade: Propaganda and Domestic Espionage in the Southern Countryside; 7. Resistance; Epilogue: After the War; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Jeanette Keith trace this resistance; including whites' political opposition to militarism, southern blacks' reluctance to serve a nation that refused to respect their rights, and anger at class bias in federal conscription policies.