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Rich man's war, poor man's fight : race, class, and power in the rural South during the first world war /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keith, Jeanette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Southern antimilitarists on the eve of war
  • Which war, whose fight? : white Southerners debate the Declaration of War and the draft, 1917
  • Fathers, farmers, and Christians
  • Agrarian protest begins
  • Race, class, gender, and draft dodging
  • The surveillance state comes to rural shade : propaganda and domestic espionage in the Southern countryside
  • Resistance
  • Epilogue : after the war.