Citizens More Than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic
(Part of the Studies in War, Society, and the Military Series)
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Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More than Soldiers demonstrates that, to the contrary, the militia remained an active civil institution in the early nineteenth century, affecting the era's great social, political, and economic transitions...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0803229704
ISBN13:9780803229709
Release Date:December 2007
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:230 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 8.8"
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