{"product_id":"world-war-ii-and-the-west-it-wrought-hardback-9781503611573","title":"World War II and the West It Wrought (Hardback) 9781503611573","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWorld War II and the West It Wrought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Brilliant (Edited by), David M. Kennedy (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503611573\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 1 table, 6 figures, 10 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Brimming with fresh insights on the modern West from an all-star roster of contributions, this stellar collection is an indispensable resource for understanding America's westward tilt and its broader significance to national and global history.\"—Margaret O'Mara, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America\u003c\/i\u003e \"Exploring how mobilization for World War II and the early Cold War turned one region into a bellwether for the nation, \u003ci\u003eWorld War II and the West It Wrought\u003c\/i\u003e brings fresh insight and lucid prose to the task of explaining the profound changes to the mid-twentieth-century American West.\"—John M. Findlay, co-author of \u003ci\u003eAtomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e \"This book by distinguished scholars at the top of their game speaks to topics not usually taken up by historians of the post-war West. I am not likely to teach mid-twentieth-century Western history quite the same.\"—William F. Deverell, co-author of \u003ci\u003eShaped by the West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmidst 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Executive Domain: Military Reservations in the Wartime West\u003cbr\u003e  2. Enlisting the Laboratories: Science, Defense, and the Transformation of the High-Tech West\u003cbr\u003e  3. World War II, the Cold War, and the Knowledge Economies of the Pacific Coast\u003cbr\u003e  4. The Politics Wrought by War: Phoenix, Seattle, and the Emergence of the Red-Blue Divide in the West, 1939–1950\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Roots of Hispanic Conservatism in the Wartime West\u003cbr\u003e  6. \"\u003cbr\u003eNo Private School Could Ever Be As Satisfactory\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Fight for Government-Funded Child Care in Postwar Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e  7. How the Pacific World Became West\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610609676568,"sku":"9781503611573","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/world-war-ii-and-the-west-it-wrought-hardback-9781503611573","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}