Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gustaitis, Joseph, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Since 1875
World War, 1914-1918 > Illinois > Chicago.
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 > Illinois > Chicago.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Ethnic relations.
Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 1875-
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 1875-
Illinois > Chicago.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Chicago: microcosm of America
  • Part I. Before the war
  • "Throw the dictionary at it": Chicago in 1913
  • Preparedness and public opinion: why Chicago went to war
  • Part II. Chicago's soldiers
  • "Kia-Kiak": the Black Hawk division
  • Black devils and partridges: the 370th Infantry Regiment
  • Part III. Life on the home front
  • Wheatless, meatless, and coalless: patriotic Chicago
  • Chicago's bright ideas: the four minute men and the American Patriotic League
  • Part IV. Chicago women and the sexual revolution
  • "The work is there to do": Chicago women in wartime
  • "Sex o'clock in America": Chicago and the first sexual revolution
  • Part V. Chicago's changing ethnic landscape
  • "The biggest town in the world": the great migration
  • "That was music": Chicago jazz
  • "Sweet home Chicago": the Chicago blues
  • "Coming to stay": the beginning of Mexican Chicago
  • The end of Kultur: the plight of Chicago's Germans
  • Part VI. After the war
  • "Taking new heart": organized labor and the postwar strikes
  • "Eyes to the future": Chicago in 1919.

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