Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South During the First World War

Name: Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South During the First World War
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ISBN: 9780807855621

ISBN-10: 0807855626

ISBN-13: 9780807855621

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jeanette Keith

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During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of federal troops into three southern states. Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several sources, including whites' long-term political opposition to militarism, southern blacks' reluctance to serve a nation that refused to respect their rights, the peace witness of southern churches, and, above all, anger at class bias in federal conscription policies. Keith shows how draft dodgers'…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 1.100

Jeanette Keith is professor of history at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. She is author of a two-volume history of the South and of Country People in the New South: Tennessee's Upper Cumberland.




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