Postwar Waging Peace in Chicago【電子書籍】[ Laura McEnaney ]

＜p＞When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onward, building a postwar society became the new national project, and every interest group involved in the war effortーfrom business leaders to working-class rentersーheld different visions for the war's aftermath. In ＜em＞Postwar＜/em＞, Laura McEnaney plumbs the depths of this period to explore exactly what peace meant to a broad swath of civilians, including apartment dwellers, single women and housewives, newly freed Japanese American internees, African American migrants, and returning veterans. In her fine-grained social history of postwar Chicago, McEnaney puts ordinary working-class people at the center of her investigation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What she finds is a working-class war liberalismーa conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people, and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help. McEnaney ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る