{"product_id":"class-and-race-in-the-frontier-army-military-life-in-the-west-1870-1890-paperback-softback-9780806193144","title":"Class and Race in the Frontier Army; Military Life in the West, 1870-1890 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780806193144","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMilitary Life in the West, 1870-1890\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKevin Adams (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806193144\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w illus., 3 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.591 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This well-written and skillfully researched study is a fascinating account of the social history of a significant American institution….[Adams] clearly proves that the frontier army might have been physically isolated from American society, but culturally it was part of the same milieu.” - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kevin Adams’s fine study of the frontier army in the West ranks among the best books on the subject in decades…..Adams uses the army as a laboratory for a better understanding of American society during the Gilded Age…. [\u003ci\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/i\u003e] is readable, coherent, well organized, meaningful, and enjoyable….Adams should be congratulated for this significant contribution to our understanding of the frontier army in the crucial period from 1870 to 1890.” - \u003ci\u003eMontana: The Magazine of Western History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Based on an impressive array of primary sources and statistical information, this well-argued and well-written book should be read by all students of the frontier army, Gilded Age society, and American labor and immigration history.” - \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this ambitious and provocative blend of social, cultural, and military history, Kevin Adams uses the experiences of the western army to emphasize the importance of class, and to deemphasize the significance of ethnicity, in Gilded Age America. As Adams shows, the egalitarian, often communal worldview of enlisted men contrasted sharply with the elitist attitudes of officers, whose celebration of leisure and habits of conspicuous consumption suggest a distinctly \u003ci\u003eunprofessional\u003c\/i\u003e attitude toward soldiering.” - Robert Wooster, author of \u003ci\u003eFrontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here is a history of the nineteenth-century frontier army for the twenty-first century. With graceful prose, Adams presents the military as part of American life, not distinct and isolated from it. This study is smart - and long overdue.” - Sherry L. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eThe View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/i\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\n\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\n\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. \u003ci\u003eClass and Race in the Frontier Army\u003c\/i\u003e offers fresh insight into the interplay of class, race, and ethnicity in late-nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685391167768,"sku":"9780806193144","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/class-and-race-in-the-frontier-army-military-life-in-the-west-1870-1890-paperback-softback-9780806193144","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}