World War II and the West It Wrought

Herausgeber: Brilliant, Mark; Kennedy, David M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This volume examines how the Western United States underwent a period of profound transformation during World War II. A lineup of notable historians examines the cultural, environmental, economic, and political ramifications of the war on the American West, and argue for new ways of conceptualizing the "Western frontier" in the second half of the twentieth century"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781503611573
• ISBN-10: 1503611574
• Artikelnr.: 57164163

Autorenporträt

Mark Brilliant is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at UC Berkeley.David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, at Stanford and co-founder of Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Executive Domain: Military Reservations in the Wartime West
2. Enlisting the Laboratories: Science, Defense, and the Transformation of
the High-Tech West
3. World War II, the Cold War, and the Knowledge Economies of the Pacific
Coast
4. The Politics Wrought by War: Phoenix, Seattle, and the Emergence of the
Red-Blue Divide in the West, 1939-1950
5. The Roots of Hispanic Conservatism in the Wartime West
6. "No Private School Could Ever Be As Satisfactory": The Fight for
Government-Funded Child Care in Postwar Los Angeles
7. How the Pacific World Became West