World War I and Urban Order

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The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization

ISBN: 1137515783
ISBN 13: 9781137515780
Autor: Hodges, Adam J
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xii, 198 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.02.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now. This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. This history of a struggle over urban order during an unprecedented crisis is one of people more than institutions and of the grassroots more than elites. The labor movement, at the heart of wartime working-class aspiration, is likewise at the heart of this story. The book also examines how those who lived in rapidly changing war boom cities experienced the era. Hodges captures both extraordinary events, including the internment of enemy aliens and women with venereal disease, and the fascinating everyday dynamics of conflict and cooperation in a novel moment of scarcity and opportunity that changed urban life.

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Beschreibung

This book uses Portland, Oregon to bring to life the transformation of U.S. cities during the first truly national war mobilization effort. World War I had an enormous impact on urban life and the relationship between cities and the federal government that has been almost entirely unexplored until now.

Autorenporträt

Adam J. Hodges is Associate Professor of History at the University of HoustonClear Lake, USA. He earned a B.Sc. at the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He has published peer-reviewed articles on labor history and urban class politics during the Progressive Era.

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