North Carolina's Experience during the First World War (Hardcover)

As America’s involvement in World War I approached its centennial, state-level histories and commemoration of the Great War increased. While North Carolina’s role in the First World War has yet to attract intense scholarly interest, a much-needed picture of the wartime Tar Heel state has nevertheless begun to emerge from newly published firsthand accounts of the war and sustained attention to the state’s wartime politicians. The essays in North Carolina’s Experience during the First World War, skillfully edited by Shepherd W. McKinley and Steven Sabol, provide in-depth interpretation of the state’s involvement in WWI. Essay topics range from soldiers and the military, to women and the home front, to politics and labor issues. Recurring themes emerge in several of the essays: the war produced a developing modern state and revealed the ascendancy of bureaucracy in the face of public- and private-sector complexity during mobilization. As this anthology makes clear, wars provide the opportunity for unsettling old patterns of power and culture. Unlike the Civil War and Second World War, however, the First World War would have relatively little effect on North Carolina’s race relations, class arrangements, women’s roles, economic order, and political leadership. What changed more dramatically was the relationship between business and government. Indeed, government took an unprecedented place in the fabric of society and the economy as the “war to end all wars” left its indelible mark on the individuals and families who served.

General

Imprint:	University of Tennessee Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2018
Editors:	Shepherd W. McKinley • Steve Sabol
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	277
ISBN-13:	978-1-62190-414-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62190-414-8
Barcode:	9781621904144

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