LEADER 04219nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910965848903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780826272010 010 $a0826272010 035 $a(CKB)2560000000015199 035 $a(OCoLC)646067844 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10559492 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000419786 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11261465 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419786 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10386179 035 $a(PQKB)10277604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440737 035 $a(OCoLC)868217824 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26935 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440737 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400595 035 $a(Perlego)1704412 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000015199 100 $a20090709d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe home fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 /$fLisa L. Ossian 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780826218568 311 08$a0826218563 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSoldiers of the soil: the farm front -- E awards and WOWs: the production front -- Bonds, scrap, and boys: the community front -- Mrs. America's mission: the kitchen front. 330 8 $aAs Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances-as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call to support the war effort. With its location in the center of the country, far from potentially threatened coasts, Iowa was also the center of American isolationism-historically Republican and resistant to involvement in another European war. Yet Iowans were quick to step up, and Lisa Ossian draws on historical archives as well as on artifacts of popular culture to record the rhetoric and emotion of their support. Ossian shows how Iowans quickly moved from skepticism to overwhelming enthusiasm for the war and answered the call on four fronts: farms, factories, communities, and kitchens. Iowa's farmers faced labor and machinery shortages, yet produced record amounts of crops and animals-even at the expense of valuable topsoil. Ordnance plants turned out bombs and machine gun bullets. Meanwhile, communities supported war bond and scrap drives, while housewives coped with rationing, raised Victory gardens, and turned to home canning. The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 depicts real people and their concerns, showing the price paid in physical and mental exhaustion and notes the heavy toll exacted on Iowa's sons who fell in battle. Ossian also considers the relevance of such issues as race, class, and gender-particularly the role of women on the home front and the recruitment of both women and blacks for factory work-taking into account a prevalent suspicion of ethnic groups by the state's largely homogeneous population. The fact that Iowans could become loyal citizen soldiers-forming an Industrial and Defense Commission even before Pearl Harbor-speaks not only to the patriotism of these sturdy midwesterners but also to the overall resilience of Americans. In unraveling how Iowans could so overwhelmingly support the war, Ossian digs deep into history to show us the power of emotion-and to help us better understand why World War II is consistently remembered as "the Good War." 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zIowa 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects$zIowa 607 $aIowa$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aIowa$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xSocial aspects 676 $a977.7/032 700 $aOssian$b Lisa L.$f1962-$01596394 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965848903321 996 $aThe home fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945$94367632 997 $aUNINA