{"product_id":"class-and-race-in-the-kevin-adams-9780806139814","title":"Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorians have long assumed that ethnic and racial divisions in post-Civil War America were reflected in the U.S. Army, of whose enlistees 40 percent were foreign-born. Now Kevin Adams shows that the frontier army was characterized by a \"Victorian class divide\" that overshadowed ethnic prejudices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/em\u003e marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history of military life on the western frontier. Adams draws on a wealth of military records and soldiers' diaries and letters to reconstruct everyday army life-from work and leisure to consumption, intellectual pursuits, and political activity-and shows that an inflexible class barrier stood between officers and enlisted men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Adams relates, officers lived in relative opulence while enlistees suffered poverty, neglect, and abuse. Although racism was ingrained in official policy and informal behavior, no similar prejudice colored the experience of soldiers who were immigrants. Officers and enlisted men paid much less attention to ethnic differences than to social class-officers flaunting and protecting their status, enlisted men seething with class resentment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreating the army as a laboratory to better understand American society in the Gilded Age, Adams suggests that military attitudes mirrored civilian life in that era-with enlisted men, especially, illustrating the emerging class-consciousness among the working poor. \u003cem\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/em\u003e offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806139811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806139814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/03\/2009 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2010","brand":"Kevin Adams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43980559024383,"sku":"9780806139814","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_944f810d-48db-4464-8064-debfe9079f32.jpg?v=1683250592","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/class-and-race-in-the-kevin-adams-9780806139814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}