Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Subtitle: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780807855621
Subjects: American history: First World War; Warfare & Defence; First World War, 1914-1918; History: American; History & Theory - General; United States - 20th Century/WWI; History; History - U.S.; Social classes; Central Southern states; Military - World War I; United States - State & Local - South; First World War; Southern deserters; black & white southern man; Southern rural draft resistance; anti-militarism; religious pacifism; draft's manifest class and racial biases; war-time mobilization; propaganda; surveillance; methods of resistance; rural dissenters; contested meaning and impact of the Great War; Political Science / History & Theory; United States - 20th Century; World War, 1914-1918; 20th century; Draft resisters; Protest movements; Race relations; Southern States
First sentence: April 6, 1917. It was past midnight when Claude Kitchin of North Carolina rose to speak to the House of Representatives.