Cover; Contents; Introduction: The South's Other "Other War; Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd 1. "A Diarrhea of Plans and Constipation of Action": The Influence of Alabama Cotton Farmers, Merchants, and Brokers on Anglo- American Diplomacy during the First World War, 1914-1915; M. Ryan Floyd 2. Manhood, Duty, and Service: Conscription in North Carolina during the First World War; James Hall 3. World War I and South Carolina's Council of Defense: Its Campaign to Root out Disloyalty, 1917-1918; Fritz Hamer 4. Food Soldiers: Rural Southerners and Food Regulation during World War I
Angela Jill Cooley 5. The Call to Duty in the Old North State: Patriotism, Service, and North Carolina Women's Colleges during the Great WarKathelene McCarty Smith and Keith Phelan Gorman 6. The Great War and Expanded Equality?: Black Carolinians Test Boundaries; 7. "The Race's Greatest Opportunity since Emancipation": The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Great War, and the South; Lee Sartain 8. Cotton's Chaotic Home Front: The First World War and the Southern Textile Industry
Annette Cox 9. "The Battle for Commerce Is Begun": Building the Port of Mobile, Alabama, after World War IMatthew L. Downs Contributors; Index