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First Strange Place The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

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ISBN-10: 0029012228

ISBN-13: 9780029012222

Edition: 1992

Authors: Beth L. Bailey, David Farber

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For close to a million soldiers, sailors and marines on their way to participate in World War II, Hawaii was, as the forward base and staging area for all Pacific operations, their first strange place. What they found there was a complex crucible in which radically diverse elements - social, racial and sexual - were mingled and transmuted in the heat and strain of war. Drawing on a reservoir of documents, diaries, memoirs and interviews with men and women who were there, the authors recreate the dense, lush atmosphere of wartime Hawaii in this text.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

David Farber is the author/editor of three books on the sixties including The Age of Great Dreamsand Chicago '68.A professor of history at the University of New Mexico, he has been described by Alan Brinkley as the leading scholar in the field.Beth Bailey is the author of three books, including Sex in the Heartland-- described by Carolyn See in the Washington Postas "a treasury of useful information" -- and From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America.She is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.