World War I and Urban Order: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization - Softcover

Hodges, Adam J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1349703443 ISBN 13: 9781349703449

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1349703443
• ISBN 13: 9781349703449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210