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Könyv Second Gold Rush Marilynn S. Johnson

Second Gold Rush

Oakland and the East Bay in World War II

Szerző: Marilynn S. Johnson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: University of California Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 9-15 napon belül
13 831 Ft
More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's Wes...

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Szerző
Marilynn S. Johnson
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
1996
oldal
328
EAN
9780520207011
ISBN
0520207017
Enbook ID
04616190
Kiadó
University of California Press
Súly
544
Méretek
152 x 229 x 23

Teljes leírás

More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Area, argues Marilynn Johnson, the changes brought by World War II were as dramatic as those brought by the gold rush a century earlier. Focusing on Oakland, Richmond, and other East Bay shipyard boomtowns, Johnson chronicles the defense buildup, labor migration from the South and Midwest, housing issues, and social and racial conflicts that pitted newcomers against longtime Bay Area residents. She follows this story into the postwar era, when struggles over employment, housing, and civil rights shaped the urban political landscape for the 1950s and beyond. She also traces the cultural legacy of war migration and shows how Southern religion and music became an integral part of Bay Area culture. Johnson's sources are wide-ranging and include shipyard records, labor histories, police reports, and interviews. Her findings place the war's human drama at center stage and effectively recreate the texture of daily life in workplace, home, and community. Enriched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange and others, The Second Gold Rush makes an important contribution to twentieth-century urban studies as well as to California history.

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