Laura Mcenaney

Postwar

Waging Peace in Chicago

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring a fine-grained history of Chicago's working class, Postwar investigates what the aftermath of World War II meant to a broad swath of Americans and finds a working-class war liberalism-a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250558
• ISBN-10: 0812250559
• Artikelnr.: 52416067

Autorenporträt

Laura McEnaney is Professor of History at Whittier College and author of Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction. The End
Chapter 1. Bathrooms, Bedrooms, and Basements: War Liberalism in the
Postwar Apartment
Chapter 2. Japanese Americans on Parole: The Perils and Promises of a
Postwar State
Chapter 3. Living the GI Bill: Postwar Prosperity Through Government
Dependency
Chapter 4. "I Would Not Call This the More Abundant Life": Working-Class
Women Get Their Peace
Chapter 5. After the Double V: African Americans Demobilize for a "Real
Peace"
Conclusion. Writing the History of What Happened After
Notes
Archival Collections Consulted
Index
Acknowledgments