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
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Keith Jeanette
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| 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
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.3/16 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Race relations |
| Southern States Social conditions 1865-1945 | |
| Southern States Rural conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rich man's war, poor man's fight |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-7589-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451977203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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