Postwar : waging peace in Chicago /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McEnaney, Laura, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Temas:
1900-1999
Reconstruction (1939-1951) > Social aspects > Illinois > Chicago.
Postwar reconstruction > Social aspects > Illinois > Chicago.
Reconstruction, 1939-1951 > Aspect social > Illinois > Chicago.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre > Aspect social > Illinois > Chicago.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Economic history
Ethnic relations
Social conditions
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Illinois > Chicago
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The End
  • Bathrooms, Bedrooms, and Basements: War Liberalism in the Postwar Apartment
  • Japanese Americans on Parole: The Perils and Promises of a Postwar State
  • Living the GI Bill: Postwar Prosperity Through Government Dependency
  • "I Would Not Call This the More Abundant Life": Working-Class Women Get Their Peace
  • After the Double V: African Americans Demobilize for a "Real Peace"
  • Conclusion: Writing the History of What Happened After.

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