War and Democracy

by Elizabeth Kier

2021 · Cornell University Press

Challenging the conventional wisdom that mass mobilization warfare fosters democratic reform and expands economic, social, and political rights, War and Democracy reexamines the effects of war on domestic politics by focusing on how wartime states either negotiate with or coerce organized labor, policies that profoundly affect labor's beliefs and aspirations. Because labor unions frequently play a central role in advancing democracy and narrowing inequalities, their wartime interactions with the state can have significant consequences for postwar politics. Comparing Britain and Italy during and after World War I, Elizabeth Kier examines the different strategies each government used to mobilize labor for war and finds that total war did little to promote political, civil, or social rights in either country. Italian unions anticipated greater worker management and a "land to the peasants" program as a result of their wartime service; British labor believed its wartime sacrifices would be repaid with "homes for heroes" and the extension of social rights. But Italy's unjust and coercive policies radicalized Italian workers (prompting a fascist backlash) and Britain's just and conciliatory policies paradoxically undermined broader democratization in Britain. In critiquing the mainstream view that total war advances democracy, War and Democracy reveals how politics during war transforms societal actors who become crucial to postwar political settlements and the prospects for democratic reform.

Whoopin' and Hollerin' in Onslow County

by Elizabeth Silance Ballaro Ballard, Hilda Silance Corey

2002 · Righter Bookstore

A nostalgic view of life in the southern military town of Jacksonville, North Carolina during the 1960's. Touching, hilarious and full of small town anecdotes and antics.

Loudoun County, Virginia Death Register, 1853-1896

by Elizabeth R. Frain, Marty Hiatt

1998 · Heritage Books

On April 11, 1853, the General Assembly of the State of Virginia passed an Act requiring that each county clerk keep marriage, birth and death records for his county-beginning January 1, 1854. The information required was place and date of death, full nam