The bad city in the good war : San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego

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The bad city in the good war : San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego

Roger W. Lotchin

(The American West in the twentieth century)

Indiana University Press, c2003

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-302) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : the bad city on the good war
  • Limping to Vallejo : the martial metropolises at war
  • Dunkirk at the marina : war and the renaissance of urban community
  • Al Capone and Alcatraz : the latent military resources of urban California
  • Tijuana breakfast : learning form the women of Rancho San Rafael and Wake Island
  • The universal double V : War and ethnocultural accomodation
  • War and the sources of urban racial and national diversity
  • Urban economies in a statist war
  • Government I : managing the city in a madcap world
  • Government II : mission improbable
  • Conclusion : the bad city and the good war : transformation or heroic interlude?

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