California at war : the state and the people during World War I / Diane M.T. North.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

North, Diane M. T., author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Military.

Social conditions.

California--Social conditions--20th century.

California.

California--History, Military--20th century.

World War, 1914-1918--California.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--California.

World War, 1914-1918--War work--California.

Social aspects.

War work.

Genre:

Military history.

Physical Description:

xii, 496 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

California at war, the state and the people during World War 1

California at war, the state and the people during WWI

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2018]

Summary:

"The United States' participation in World War I changed the daily lives of Californians. They served in the military, volunteered with overseas aid organizations, and raised millions to help war refugees and fund the war effort. The federal government expanded military bases and training camps in California, businessmen secured military contracts, and university scientists conducted war-related research. Wartime California was also a place of suspicion, censorship, illegal evidence gathering, and intrusive domestic surveillance, where citizens rejected progressivism in favor of anti-civil liberties measures and where fear of radicals, dissenters, and Asian Americans rose. In California at War, Diane North focuses on people and tells their stories, using the Golden State as a lens through which to see a bigger picture. As reader and World War I expert Steve Trout said in his report on the manuscript: "Bringing the history of American participation in the Great War down to the state level--in a work this well-written and deeply researched--produced what was, for me at least, a surprising effect: I felt the weight of those nineteen transformative months in 1917-1918 as never before."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A world at war

The great adventure: California men at war

"Those splendid women": California women overseas

On the home front

Protecting the state

War and the California economy

In the home trenches

Disease and war

Social controls and legal constraints

Guardians of loyalty: the American Protective League in California 1917-1919

The supreme struggle: civil liberties at risk in wartime California

Epilogue

Chronology

Appendix 1. US military installations in California during World War I

Appendix 2. Central Committee Organizations, Women's Committee, State Council of Defense of California.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780700626465

0700626468

OCLC:

1012659616