The Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I

Publication/Creation:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

The Great War in the heart of Dixie : Alabama during World War I / edited by Martin T. Olliff

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Additional Author/Creators:

Olliff, Martin T.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918--Alabama
Alabama--History--1819-1950

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Alabama, April 1917 / Martin T. Olliff -- Military participation at home and abroad, 1917-1918 / Ruth Smith Truss -- "Tenting tonight on the old camp grounds" : Alabama's military bases in World War I / Wesley Phillips Newton -- Alabama's Black Baptist leaders, the Progressive Era, and World War I / Wilson Fallin, Jr. -- A call to arms for African Americans during the age of Jim Crow : Black Alabamians' response to the U.S. declaration of war in 1917 / David Alsobrook -- From the cotton field to the great waterway : African Americans and the Muscle Shoals Project during World War I / Victoria E. Ott -- Mobile in World War I / Michael V.R. Thomason -- The Alabama Council of Defense, 1917-1918 / Dowe Littleton -- "Can all we can, and can the Kaiser, too" : the Montgomery Cooperative Canning Club / Martin T. Olliff -- World War I : catalyst for social change in Alabama / Robert Saunders, Jr. -- Memorializing World War I in Alabama / Robert J. Jakeman.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-259) and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

viii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990022512910302486

ISBN:

0817316167 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817354921 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817380582 (electronic : alk. paper)
9780817316167 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817354923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817380588 (electronic : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

181603534

Barcode:

010001380425