Jeanette Keith: 4 books

Book cover of Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight

Race, Class, and Power in the Rural South during the First World War

by Jeanette Keith
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005

During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register for the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. In the countryside, armed bands of deserters defied local authorities; capturing them required the dispatch of...
Book cover of Country People in the New South

Country People in the New South

Tennessee's Upper Cumberland

by Jeanette Keith
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until...
Book cover of Fever Season

Fever Season

The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City

by Jeanette Keith
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. The city of Memphis,...
Book cover of Woodland Survey Handbook

Woodland Survey Handbook

Collecting Data for Conservation in British Woodland

by Keith Kirby, Jeanette Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019

How do you record the wildlife in a wood? This book explains ways to record the flora and fauna found in woodland and outlines the sources you can use to find out more about the history and management of an area. Whether you have just a few hours, or a few years, there are examples that you can follow...
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