Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
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 |
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 | |
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: | 979-88-908785-6-4 |
0-8078-7589-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777684203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |