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Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War (review)

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the... tual content would have been largely unaltered. I had hoped, perhaps unreason- ably, that the volume would articulate a dissent more explicitly rooted in south- ern culture and history. In the final analysis, however, the essays are thought- provoking and prove that not all southern voices are in the conservative tradition. ........................................................................................................................ Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War By Jeannette Keith University of North Carolina Press, 2004 260 pp. Cloth $59.95; paper, $22.50 Reviewed by Jonathan F. Phillips, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies, where he is completing a book entitled Superbase: Fort Bragg and Militarization in the American South. The “southern military tradition,” the idea that the American South has been the most militaristic section of the nation, is a generally accepted view among many observers of the region. As one prominent historian wrote in 1984, “ The militant South, the military South, prone to shoot first and answer questions later, did and still does exist.” The perpetuation of southern militarism is further reinforced by memorable titles and prominent authors—The Militant South by John Hope Franklin and The Fighting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight: Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War (review)

Phillips, Jonathan F.
Southern Cultures , Volume 11 (4) – Nov 23, 2005
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tual content would have been largely unaltered. I had hoped, perhaps unreason- ably, that the volume would articulate a dissent more explicitly rooted in south- ern culture and history. In the final analysis, however, the essays are thought- provoking and prove that not all southern voices are in the conservative tradition. ........................................................................................................................ Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War By Jeannette Keith University of North Carolina Press, 2004 260 pp. Cloth $59.95; paper, $22.50 Reviewed by Jonathan F. Phillips, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies, where he is completing a book entitled Superbase: Fort Bragg and Militarization in the American South. The “southern military tradition,” the idea that the American South has been the most militaristic section of the nation, is a generally accepted view among many observers of the region. As one prominent historian wrote in 1984, “ The militant South, the military South, prone to shoot first and answer questions later, did and still does exist.” The perpetuation of southern militarism is further reinforced by memorable titles and prominent authors—The Militant South by John Hope Franklin and The Fighting

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