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

By: Brooks, Jennifer E.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004Description: xi, 256 p. : ill., 1 map.Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Georgia | Veterans -- Georgia -- Political activity | Georgia -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 305.9/0697/0975809045 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.