North Carolina's experience during the First World War / edited by Shepherd W. McKinley and Steven Sabol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McKinley, Shepherd W., editor.

Sabol, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--North Carolina.

World War, 1914-1918.

History.

North Carolina--History--20th century.

North Carolina.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction / dr Jeffrey J. Crow

1. "Now it is all good and better" : Fayetteville and the origins of Fort Bragg / Jonathan F. Phillips

2. Where Johnnie got his gun: Charlotte and Camp Greene / Kurt D. Geske

3. Planting doughboys on the farm: Hugh MacRae and the soldier settlement movement / J. Vincent Lowery

4. "Bringing home to the trenches" : North Carolina women on the warfront during the Great War / Jerra Jenrette

5. Black North Carolinians as soldiers in the First World War : the first, the proud, the brave / Janet G. Hudson

6. War mobilization and "purposeful loyalty" : North Carolina's Council of Defense / James S. Bissett

7. "There may be a few obstructionists about" : mobilization and resistance in the Germanic counties of Piedmont North Carolina, 1917-1918 / Gary R. Freeze

8. Josephus Daniels, "freedom of the seas," and North Carolina's economy during the Great War / Lee A. Craig

9 "Lest we forget" : the literary works of North Carolina's First World War soldiers / Melissa Edmundson

10. "The means of instilling that spirit of Americanism" : North Carolina, cultural memory, and the First World War / Shannon Bontrager

11. The First and Second World War generations of North Carolina political leadership / Karl E. Campbell

12. "The American Legion will come to my rescue" : disability in North Carolina's Great War / Pamela C. Edwards

13. W.S. Rankin and the creation of public health in North Carolina, 1909-1925 / William P. Brandon and Lauren A. Austin

14. "Doing their big bit": North Carolina's women on the homefront / Angela Robbins

15. Pandemic and war, 1918-1919 : preliminary analysis of new North Carolina influenza data / Lauren A. Austin and William P. Brandon

16. Years of promise : tobacco agriculture and the Great War / Evan P. Bennett

17^reat War / Lee A. Craig

9 Towels, socks, and denim : World War I and North Carolina's cotton mills / Annette Cox

18. "Let me have one of my boys back": class-based mobilization of labor on the Tar Heel homefront / Pamela C. Edwards.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: North Carolina's experience during the First World War.

ISBN:

9781621904144

1621904148

OCLC:

1018073196