Class and Race in the Frontier Army Patricia Irwin Johnston Gombrowicz

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individual rights

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Class and Race in the Frontier Army Patricia Irwin Johnston GombrowiczHistorians 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 of