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Class and race in the frontier Army : military life in the West, 1870-1890
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- Creator
- Kevin Adams
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780806139814, 0806139811
- OCLC
- ocn242559579
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index.
- The Gilded Age Army : men, money, and missions -- Ways of thinking : the mental worlds of officers -- Soldiers, servants, or slaves? : work in the frontier Army -- Worlds together, worlds apart : class and leisure culture -- Starvation and succulence : consumption in the Army -- Uncle Sam's gentlemen, Uncle Sam's slaves : class tensions in the Army -- "A promiscuous arrangement" : race and ethnicity in the frontier Army
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.