The First Strange Place by Beth L Bailey
As the forward base and staging area for all US military operations in the Pacific during World War I, Hawaii was the first strange place for close to a million soldiers, sailors and marines on their way to the horrors of war. But Hawaii was also the first strange place on another kind of journey, toward the new American society that would begin to emerge in the post-war era. Unlike the rigid and static social order of pre-war America, this was to be a highly mobile and volatile society of mixed racial and cultural influences, one above all in which women and minorities would increasingly demand and receive equal status. Drawing on documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews, Beth Bailey and David Farber show how these unprecedented changes were tested and explored in the highly charged environment of wartime Hawaii.
The First Strange Place is in the great tradition of oral history and yet it makes marvelous use of archival records-I was reminded both of Studs Terkel's sensitive ear and of Shelby Foote's sweeping visionBoston Globe
Beth Bailey teaches American history and is the director of American Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of From the Front Porch to the Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. David Farber teaches American history at barnard College, Columbia University. He is the author of Chicago '68 and The Age of Great Dreams: American in the 1960s.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801848674 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801848679 |
| Title | The First Strange Place |
| Author | Beth L Bailey |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1994-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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