Class and Race in the Frontier Army: Military Life in the West, 1870-1890

by Kevin Adams

Book Overview

Historians 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.

Class and Race in the Frontier Army marks the first application of recent research on class, race, and ethnicity to the social and cultural history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806139811
• ISBN13: 9780806139814
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"