
Texas and World War I
Gregory W. Ball(Author)
Texas State Historical Association,U.S. (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-62511-050-3 (ISBN)
Description
On November 11, 1918, what was then called "the Great War" ended. The consequences of four years of warfare in Europe reverberated throughout the world, leaving few places untouched. Even though it was far from the scenes of conflict, Texas was forever changed, as historian Gregory W. Ball details in Texas and World War I.
This accessible history recounts the ways in which the war affected Texas and Texans politically, socially, and economically. Texas's position on the United States border with Mexico and on the western edge of the American South profoundly influenced the ways in which the war affected the state, from fears of invasion from the across the Rio Grande-fears that put the state's significant German American population under suspicion-to the racial tensions that flared when African American soldiers challenged Jim Crow.
When thousands of Texas men were drafted into the U.S. Army and the federal government developed a host of training grounds and airfields (many close to the state's burgeoning cities) in response to U.S. entry into the war, this heavily rural state that had long been outside the national mainstream was had become more "American" than ever before.
This accessible history recounts the ways in which the war affected Texas and Texans politically, socially, and economically. Texas's position on the United States border with Mexico and on the western edge of the American South profoundly influenced the ways in which the war affected the state, from fears of invasion from the across the Rio Grande-fears that put the state's significant German American population under suspicion-to the racial tensions that flared when African American soldiers challenged Jim Crow.
When thousands of Texas men were drafted into the U.S. Army and the federal government developed a host of training grounds and airfields (many close to the state's burgeoning cities) in response to U.S. entry into the war, this heavily rural state that had long been outside the national mainstream was had become more "American" than ever before.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Austin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62511-050-3 (9781625110503)
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Person
Gregory W. Ball holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and is a historian with the U.S. Air Force. He is the author of They Called Them Soldier Boys: A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I (University of North Texas Press, 2013).