Texas and World War I (Volume 26) (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series)

Ball, Gregory W.

ISBN 10: 1625110502 / ISBN 13: 9781625110503

Published by Texas State Historical Assn, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Texas and World War I (Volume 26) (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series)
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1625110502
• ISBN 13: 9781625110503
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 7 ounces

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Synopsis

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 became more “American” than ever before.

About the Author

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).