Class and race in the frontier Army
Subtitle: military life in the West, 1870-1890
By: Kevin Adams.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Norman, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780806139814
Subjects: United States. -- Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African American soldiers -- West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social status -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Racism -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; West (U.S.) -- History, Military -- 19th century; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890; West (U.S.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; West (U.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Gilded Age Army : men, money, and missions; title: Ways of thinking : the mental worlds of officers; title: Soldiers, servants, or slaves? : work in the frontier Army; title: Worlds together, worlds apart : class and leisure culture; title: Starvation and succulence : consumption in the Army; title: Uncle Sam's gentlemen, Uncle Sam's slaves : class tensions in the Army; title: "A promiscuous arrangement" : race and ethnicity in the frontier Army.