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Author Brooks, Jennifer E.

Title Defining the peace [electronic resource] : World War II veterans, race, and the remaking of Southern political tradition / Jennifer E. Brooks.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xi, 256 p. : ill., 1 map.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.
Contents Introduction : World War II veterans and the politics of postwar change in Georgia -- The ballot must be our weapon : Black veterans and the politics of racial change -- The question of majority rule : White veterans and the politics of progressive reform -- Is this what we fought the war for? union veterans and the politics of labor -- We are not radicals, neither are we reactionaries : good government, veterans and the politics of modernization -- Hitler is not dead but has found refuge in Georgia : the General Assembly of 1947 and the limits of progress.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Georgia.
Veterans -- Georgia -- Political activity.
Georgia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807875759
0807829110 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807855782 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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