World War I and Urban Order
The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization
Authors: Hodges, Adam
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
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“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)
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction: World War I and the City
Pages 1-10
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Portland: Middle-Class Paradise or City of Struggle?
Pages 11-35
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Policing Everyday Life: Federal Power, Local Elites, and Citizen Spies
Pages 37-56
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Policing the Shipyards: The EFC and the Federal Struggle for Urban Industrial Order
Pages 57-80
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Wartime Class Struggle: The Portland Labor Movement and the Industrial Peace Regime
Pages 81-103
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- World War I and Urban Order
- Book Subtitle
- The Local Class Politics of National Mobilization
- Authors
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- Adam Hodges
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-49811-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137498113
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-51578-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-70344-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 198
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