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• Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico by David V. Holtby
• Joshua E. Kastenberg

The carnage of the "War to End All Wars," or more aptly, World War I, ended over a century ago. Unlike the Civil War sesquicentennial, which resulted in hundreds of books, the century anniversary of the United States' involvement in the first modern global conflict was rather muted. Nonetheless, quality scholarship resulted in studies on the alteration of laws, science, and medicine, as well as economic and social upheaval. And there were a small number of superb localized histories that studied the war's effects on communities. David V. Holtby's' Lest We Forget: World War I and New Mexico falls into this latter category.

Holtby presents a thoroughly researched narrative history that brings several New Mexicans to life, through the haze of a century laden by yet another world war, a depression, and various other political, social, and global conflicts. He notes, in a chapter titled "Sleepwalkers," that "the battlefield's casualties reveal ordinary New Mexicans doing extraordinary things," and then adds that "they deserve to be heard." His book succeeds in doing more than that.

New Mexico was one of the two newest states when the US went to war against Imperial Germany and its allies. Its demographics were more than a mirror of the nation. There were citizens who traced their lineage to a period before the Spanish Land Grant of 1692; yet, wide sections of the US would not have viewed them as citizens. Holtby's use of original source material explains the patriotism of, and other reasons for, Hispanic New Mexicans as well as Native Americans joining the armed forces. One only need look at the bibliography to learn of Holtby's use of the personal correspondences and governmental records of the state's participants in the war. He brings to life their experience of basic training, journey to the Western Front, and life (and death) in the trenches. This includes the fact that some of the Nuevomexicano soldiers did not read or write [End Page 245] English and had to rely on fellow soldiers to make it through military life.

Holtby also provides insight into the role of women during the war, including the importance of their efforts in promoting the war and gaining employment. Women, it has been written, achieved a foothold in the nation's economy and political life as a result of the war, and Holtby provides evidence that this occurred in New Mexico. Yet he also shows how in a population divided by race, ethnicity, and economy, the roles and advances of each group were hardly uniform, and that Anglos socially benefited more than any other group. If there is one shortcoming in the book, and this shortcoming is minimal, it is that he does not spend enough time on how the military's unique disciplinary system or how the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918 affected the state population.

New Mexico was, and is, not New York. Its population in 1917 placed it at the bottom of the list of state populations. And its demographics, though hardly homogenous, were unique to it. Yet any scholar who seeks insight into how a global conflict affects a state population should read this book, for it contributes superbly not only to New Mexico history but also to the history of the nation.

审核人：

• 唯恐我们忘记：第一次世界大战和新墨西哥州（David V. Holtby）
• 约书亚·卡斯滕伯格

一个世纪以前，“战争结束所有战争”，或更恰当的说是第一次世界大战的屠杀结束了。不像内战五十周年纪念日，该国出版了数百本书，而美国卷入第一场现代全球冲突的百年纪念日却被淡化了。尽管如此，高质量的奖学金还是导致人们对法律，科学和医学的改变以及经济和社会动荡的研究。少数极好的本地化历史研究了战争对社区的影响。大卫·霍尔特比（David V. Holtby）的《唯恐我们忘记：第一次世界大战和新墨西哥州》属于后一类。

霍尔特比（Holtby）展示了经过深入研究的叙事历史，经历了又一次世界大战，萧条以及其他各种政治，社会和全球冲突，使这个世纪充满了阴霾，使几位新墨西哥人栩栩如生。他在标题为“ Sleepwalkers”的一章中指出，“战场上的人员伤亡表明普通新墨西哥人在做非凡的事情，”然后补充说，“他们值得一听。” 他的书成功地做到了这一点。

美国对帝国德国及其盟国发动战争时，新墨西哥州是两个最新的州之一。它的人口统计数据不只是国家的一面镜子。有些公民的血统可以追溯到1692年西班牙土地授予之前的时期。但是，美国大部分地区不会将其视为公民。霍尔特比对原始资料的使用解释了西班牙裔新墨西哥人以及加入武装部队的美洲原住民的爱国主义及其他原因。只需查看书目即可了解霍尔特比对战争参与者的个人信件和政府记录的使用情况。他将他们的基本训练，西线之旅以及战life中的生命（和死亡）的经历变为现实。[结束第245页]英语，不得不依靠同伴来过军事生活。

Holtby还提供了关于妇女在战争中的作用的见识，包括她们在促进战争和获得就业方面的努力的重要性。据记载，由于战争，妇女在该国的经济和政治生活中立足，霍尔特比提供了证据表明这种情况发生在新墨西哥州。然而，他还表明，在按种族，种族和经济划分的人口中，每个群体的角色和进步很难统一，并且盎格鲁人在社会上的收益比任何其他群体都大。如果书中有一个缺点，而这个缺点是最小的，那就是他没有花足够的时间在军方独特的纪律制度或1917年和1918年的《间谍和煽动叛乱法》如何影响州人民身上。

新墨西哥州曾经是，现在不是纽约。它的人口在1917年处于国家人口列表的底部。而且，尽管人口统计数据几乎不统一，但它的特征是独一无二的。但是，任何想了解全球冲突如何影响州人口的学者都应该读这本书，因为它不仅对新墨西哥州的历史做出了杰出贡献，而且对国家历史也做出了杰出贡献。