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Kentucky and the Great War - World War I on the Home Front (Hardcover)
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Kentucky and the Great War - World War I on the Home Front (Hardcover)
Series: Topics in Kentucky History
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From five thousand children marching in a parade, singing, "Johnnie
get your hoe.... Mary dig your row," to communities banding
together to observe Meatless Tuesdays and Wheatless Wednesdays,
Kentuckians were loyal supporters of their country during the First
World War. Kentucky had one of the lowest rates of draft dodging in
the nation, and the state increased its coal production by 50
percent during the war years. Overwhelmingly, the people of the
Commonwealth set aside partisan interests and worked together to
help the nation achieve victory in Europe. David J. Bettez provides
the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Great War on
Bluegrass society, politics, economy, and culture, contextualizing
the state's involvement within the national experience. His
exhaustively researched study examines the Kentucky Council of
Defense -- which sponsored local war-effort activities -- military
mobilization and preparation, opposition and dissent, and the role
of religion and higher education in shaping the state's response to
the war. It also describes the efforts of Kentuckians who served
abroad in military and civilian capacities, and postwar
memorialization of their contributions. Kentucky and the Great War
explores the impact of the conflict on women's suffrage, child
labor, and African American life. In particular, Bettez
investigates how black citizens were urged to support a war to make
the world "safe for democracy" even as their civil rights and
freedoms were violated in the Jim Crow South. This engaging and
timely social history offers new perspectives on an overlooked
aspect of World War I.
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