"Our country first, then Greenville" : a New South city during the progressive era and World War I /
"[This work] places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South city. Greenville, South Carolina has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the 'Best Small Cities'...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2023]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The politics of race and gender in the "Pearl of the Piedmont"
- Greenville and the nation respond to war "Over there," 1914-1917
- The impact of Camp Sevier: mobilization, nationalization, and economic boom
- "For liberty and humanity": camp and community on the home front, 1917-1918
- "They have responded to every call": race relations on the home front
- "What American will have the heart or the heardihood to say him nay?": African Americans' service in the Great War
- "A university or a training camp": Furman University and the Student Army Training Corps
- Chaos and connfusion in 1918: the influenza pandemic in Greenville
- "Grow with Greenville": progressivism in the postwar era, 1919-1929
- Memorialization of the Great War: the politics of race and remembrance.