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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965380103321

Autore

Shenk Gerald E

Titolo

"Work or fight!" : race, gender, and the draft in World War One / / Gerald E. Shenk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

9786611368869

9781281368867

1281368865

9781403980847

1403980845

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 194 p.)

Disciplina

940.3/73

Soggetti

Recruiting and enlistment

United States Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc World War, 1914-1918

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: "The Darkness in Georgia" -- Chapter Two: Illinois: "A Man Is No Man That Is Not Willing to Fight" -- Chapter Three: New Jersey: "He's His Mother's Boy -- Go and Get Him" -- Chapter Four: California: "Please Forward Chinese, Japanese and American Indians, but no Negroes" -- Chapter Five: "The Final Report" -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

During World War I the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied men work or fight. White men who were husbands and fathers, owned property or worked at approved jobs had the benefits of citizenship without fighting. Others were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book tells the stories of those affected by the Selective Service System.