World War II and the West It Wrought - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1503611574 ISBN 13 : 9781503611573

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West. Having lifted the United States out of the Great Depression, World War II set in motion a massive westward population movement, ignited a quarter-century boom that redefined the West as the nation's most economically dynamic region, and triggered unprecedented public investment in manufacturing, education, scientific research, and infrastructure-an economic revolution that would lay the groundwork for prodigiously innovative high-tech centers in Silicon Valley, the Puget Sound area, and elsewhere.

Amidst robust economic growth and widely shared prosperity in the post-war decades, Westerners made significant strides toward greater racial and gender equality, even as they struggled to manage the environmental consequences of their region's surging vitality. At the same time, wartime policies that facilitated the federal withdrawal of Western public lands and the occupation of Pacific islands for military use continued an ongoing project of U.S. expansionism at home and abroad. This volume explores the lasting consequences of a pivotal chapter in U.S. history, and offers new categories for understanding the post-war West.

Contributors to this volume include Mark Brilliant, Geraldo L. Cadava, Matthew Dallek, Mary L. Dudziak, Jared Farmer, David M. Kennedy, Daniel J. Kevles, Rebecca Jo Plant, Gavin Wright, and Richard White.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503611574
• ISBN 13: 9781503611573
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Brilliant Mark, Kennedy David M.
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