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Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

其他書名	Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South During the First World War
出版	University of North Carolina Press, 2004
主題	History / Wars & Conflicts / World War IHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Political Science / History & TheoryPolitical Science / PeaceSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / RuralSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic DisparitySocial Science / Race & Ethnic RelationsTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
ISBN	08078556269780807855621
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1CxnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋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.