Ohio State University Press Manhood, citizenship, and the national guard: illinois, 1870-1917, paperback/eleanor hannah

• 3 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

During the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, thousands upon thousands of American men devoted their time and money to the creation of an unsought--and in some quarters unwelcome--revived state militia.

In this book, Eleanor L.

Hannah studies the social history of the National Guard, focusing on issues of manhood and citizenship as they relate to the rise of the state militias.

In brief, the National Guard of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is best interpreted as one of a host.