Eric Fure-Slocum

Contesting the Postwar City

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on mid-century Milwaukee, Eric Fure-Slocum charts the remaking of political culture in the industrial city of the 1940s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9781107036352
• ISBN-10: 1107036356
• Artikelnr.: 37801289

Autorenporträt

Eric Fure-Slocum teaches History and American Studies at St Olaf College. His research and writing focuses on twentieth-century US urban and working-class history, with an interest in the shaping of American political culture and the political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: contesting democracy: working-class and growth politics in the city; 1. Milwaukee: a mid-twentieth-century working-class city; 2. New Deal legacies and wartime urgencies: housing politics
private enterprise
and public authority; 3. Wartime gambling
working-class leisure
and urban reform: 'why do our boys have to fight if we can't play bingo?'; 4. A militant CIO vision for city democracy: power
security
and egalitarianism; 5. Debt
growth
and democracy in the early postwar city; 6. Housing the postwar city: crowding
race
and policy; 7. Public housing
redevelopment
and urban citizenship: the 1951 referendum fight; Epilogue: revising postwar democracy: a city with class.