Conscription, conscientious objection, and draft resistance in American history / by Jerry Elmer.
2024
HIST 355.224 El6c
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Title
Conscription, conscientious objection, and draft resistance in American history / by Jerry Elmer.
Author
ISBN
9789004515284 hardcover
9004515283 hardcover
9789004546684 electronic book
9004515283 hardcover
9789004546684 electronic book
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
xiii, 389 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Call Number
HIST 355.224 El6c
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1380459997
Summary
"Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era. Each chapter contains an examination of that era's draft law, the actual workings of the conscription machinery, and relevant court decisions that shaped the draft in practice. In addition, the book describes the popular opposition to conscription: organized and unorganized, violent and nonviolent, public and clandestine, legal and illegal. Using sources never before utilized by historians, including government documents obtained in Freedom of Information Act requests, the book demonstrates how anti-conscription sentiment has been far deeper than is popularly appreciated"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Background and context
The Civil War : the Union
The Civil War : the Confederacy
World War I
World War II
The Cold War and the Korean War
The Vietnam War Era.
The Civil War : the Union
The Civil War : the Confederacy
World War I
World War II
The Cold War and the Korean War
The Vietnam War Era.
Series
Studies in peace history ; v. 1.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Elmer, Jerry, 1951- Conscription, conscientious objection, and draft resistance in American history Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023
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