The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San DiegoIndiana University Press, 03.03.2003 - 314 Seiten "Riders were very appropriate to a western war, but these horsemen could not have been more different. One group patrolled the oceanfront of 'The City' after dark. While the residents of the nearby Sunset District and Seacliff huddled around the radios in their living rooms, curtains pulled and blinds lowered, listening to war news or to 'One Man's Family,' other residents rode the beaches. Mounted on their own ponies, the men of the San Francisco Polo Club labored through the sands of China Beach, Baker Beach, and the Ten Mile Beach, looking for Imperial Japanese intruders." —from the book |
Inhalt
The Bad City in the Good War | 1 |
Limping to Vallejo The Martial Metropolises at War | 7 |
Dunkirk at the Marina War and the Renaissance of Urban Community | 27 |
Al Capone and Alcatraz The Latent Military Resources of Urban California | 51 |
Tijuana Breakfast Learning from the Women of Rancho San Rafael and Wake Island | 74 |
The Universal Double V War and Ethnocultural Accommodation | 104 |
War and the Sources of Urban Racial and National Diversity | 141 |
Urban Economies in a Statist War | 156 |
Government I Managing the City in a Madcap World | 182 |
Government II Mission Improbable | 212 |
The Bad City in the Good War Transformation or Heroic Interlude? | 237 |
Tables | 245 |
Notes | 255 |
Selected Bibliography | 289 |
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