Overview
Presents a close study of the impact of World War I on local politics, labor, urban governance, and daily life in Portland, Oregon
Sheds light on how World War I dramatically changed the scope of governance to everyday life in American cities
Explores urban class politics, labor relations, radicalism, anti-radicalism, and the Red Scare
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“This relatively short, lively book should appeal to a good-sized readership. First, it will work well in advanced undergraduate and graduate classes. And general readers seeking information about our unaccountable surveillance state, police repression, and the excessive power of business will profit from learning about the deep roots of these problems and the ways ordinary people have fought back.” (Chad Pearson, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 16 (4), October, 2017)
“This account by Hodges (history, Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake), tightly centered on Portland, OR (1917–19), is most welcome, particularly because, as he notes, the overwhelmingly ‘national focus of the historical literature’ has ‘obscured the innovative ways’ state and local governments instigated and implemented severe repression of (massive but entirely peaceful) WW I dissent. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (R. J. Goldstein, Choice, Vol. 54 (2), October, 2016)
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World War I and Urban Order
Book Subtitle: The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization
Authors: Adam J. Hodges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498113
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51578-0Published: 26 February 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70344-9Published: 31 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49811-3Published: 30 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 198
Topics: History of Military, Social Policy, History of the Americas, US History, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Modern History