Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight write by Jeanette Keith. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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' success in avoiding service resulted from the failure of southern states to create effective mechanisms for identifying and classifying individuals. Lacking local-level data on draft evaders, the federal government used agencies of surveillance both to find reluctant conscripts and to squelch antiwar dissent in rural areas. Drawing upon rarely used local draft board reports, Selective Service archives, Bureau of Investigation reports, and southern political leaders' constituent files, Keith offers new insights into rural southern politics and society as well as the growing power of the nation-state in early twentieth-century America.
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight write by Daniel Thompson. This book was released on 2011-09-25. Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight, is the story of two Scot - Irish families who left Ireland for the promise of a better life in America. While accurately set in time and place, this is not a battle by battle account of Civil War history. It is the story of a determined people who were pressed into a war by a country who spurned their kind and used them as pawns so their wealthy sons could be kept out of harm's way. One family, a young man who hoped to use his family trade as a sword smith entered through the port of New York in 1862. New York was in the midst of the conscription riots as Abraham Lincoln's cabinet desperately fought to fill the ranks of an Army to hold the Union together. A second family left Dublin for New Orleans. They arrived as organizers tried to convince young Irish men that the South's fight for independence from the federal government is a struggle that the Irish should understand. Fate brings the young men together on opposing sides of a Virginia battlefield where they collapse in exhaustion and come to realize the irony of their meeting and the cruel circumstances that brought them together as enemies.
Rich Man's War
Rich Man's War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Man's War write by David Williams. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Rich Man's War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Rich Man's War historian David Williams focuses on the Civil War experience of people in the Chattahoochee River Valley of Georgia and Alabama to illustrate how the exploitation of enslaved blacks and poor whites by a planter oligarchy generated overwhelming class conflict across the South, eventually leading to Confederate defeat. This conflict was so clearly highlighted by the perception that the Civil War was "a rich man's war and a poor man's fight" that growing numbers of oppressed whites and blacks openly rebelled against Confederate authority, undermining the fight for independence. After the war, however, the upper classes encouraged enmity between freedpeople and poor whites to prevent a class revolution. Trapped by racism and poverty, the poor remained in virtual economic slavery, still dominated by an almost unchanged planter elite. The publication of this book was supported by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission.
Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight
Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight write by . This book was released on 1944. Rich Man's War - Poor Man's Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Frenzied Liberty, the Myth of "A Rich Man's War"
Frenzied Liberty, the Myth of "A Rich Man's War" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Frenzied Liberty, the Myth of "A Rich Man's War" write by Otto H. Kahn. This book was released on 2020-07-27. Frenzied Liberty, the Myth of "A Rich Man's War" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduction of the original: Frenzied Liberty, the Myth of "A Rich Man's War" by Otto H. Kahn
