| The First Strange Place: Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii Contributor(s): Bailey, Beth L. (Author), Farber, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801848679 ISBN-13: 9780801848674 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $27.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: As the forward base and staging area for all U.S. military operations in the Pacific during World War II, 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 postwar era. Unlike the rigid and static social order of prewar 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 940.539 |
| LCCN: 93043661 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.16" W x 9.31" (0.97 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As the forward base and staging area for all US military operations in the Pacific during World War II, 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 postwar era. Unlike the rigid and static social order of prewar 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. |