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The White Man's Fight

2012-03-28 History
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Release : 2012-03-28
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The White Man's Fight by : Michael A. Eggleston

Download or read book The White Man's Fight written by Michael A. Eggleston. This book was released on 2012-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American negroes are the only people in the history of the world. . . . that ever became free without any effort on their own." W. E. Woodward stated this in his biography of General Ulysses S. Grant. Nothing could be farther from the truth as will be seen in this history which will show that the African Americans fighting in the Civil War may have been the deciding factor in determining the outcome.

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

2005-10-12 History
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Release : 2005-10-12
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight by : Jeanette Keith

Download or read book Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight written by Jeanette Keith. This book was released on 2005-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Black People and the South African War 1899-1902

2004-08-26 History
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Release : 2004-08-26
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 247/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 by : Peter Warwick

Download or read book Black People and the South African War 1899-1902 written by Peter Warwick. This book was released on 2004-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increasingly shaped, but not yet transformed, by mining capital.

The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war

2010-09-01 History
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Release : 2010-09-01
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Book Synopsis The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war by : André Wessels

Download or read book The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war written by André Wessels. This book was released on 2010-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on many years of research with regard to the Anglo-Boer War, this book is essential reading for anyone who would like to know more about the most devastating conflict that has thus far been waged between white people in Southern Africa. However, with due course, this war also involved more and more black, brown and, to some extent, Asian people.

Black Soldiers in a White Man's War

2018-12-04 History
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Release : 2018-12-04
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Book Rating : 857/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Black Soldiers in a White Man's War by : Gordon D. Pollock

Download or read book Black Soldiers in a White Man's War written by Gordon D. Pollock. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the story of 600 Black men from across North America and the Caribbean, who, in 1917, went to war in a labour unit, No. 2 Construction Battalion. Regarded then by senior Command as morally infectious, a century later they have become central actors in a powerful cultural myth, celebrated in folk tales, poetry, drama and text. Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War examines critically that mythical narrative. Based on service records of the 600 volunteers and 35 courts-martial in the unit, it probes the lives of these soldiers, who laboured in the forests of France during 1917 and 1918. Black Soldiers in a White Man’s War will shock some, but, for the majority of readers, it will present a fresh, vibrant portrait of a group of young Black men, who at a time of international crisis volunteered to fight the King’s enemies. It will also open readers to experiences these men faced as they returned to a post-war racist society.

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