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Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run de Sarah Jo Peterson

Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run: Historical Studies of Urban America

Autor Sarah Jo Peterson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mai 2013

Găsim în această carte o analiză riguroasă a modului în care mobilizarea industrială pentru cel de-al Doilea Război Mondial a redefinit radical peisajul urban american. Planning the Home Front se deschide cu studiul de caz al uzinei Willow Run, un punct focal unde efortul de a construi un bombardier pe oră s-a ciocnit de realitățile administrative ale creării unei comunități de la zero. Recomandăm acest volum pentru modul în care documentează negocierile dintre liderii sindicali, industriași și oficialii guvernamentali, oferind o perspectivă tehnică asupra „Arsenalului Democrației”.

Structura narativă urmărește o progresie cronologică și tematică clară, de la răspunsul local în fața industrializării bruște, până la capitolele critice despre segregarea rasială și criza locuințelor pentru apărare. Merită menționat că Sarah Jo Peterson nu se limitează la istoria militară, ci investighează fundamentele politice ale suburbanizării postbelice. Cartea funcționează ca o alternativă academică la The Arsenal of Democracy de A.J. Baime pentru cursurile de istorie urbană sau politici publice. Dacă titlul lui Baime pune accent pe narațiunea dramatică a familiei Ford, lucrarea de față aduce avantajul unei analize structurale asupra planificării regionale și a tensiunilor sociale.

Prin utilizarea celor 19 ilustrații și a hărților incluse, Planning the Home Front demonstrează cum deciziile logistice de război au setat cadrul pentru explozia suburbană a Americii. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care guvernanța federală a interacționat cu interesele locale în momente de criză totală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226025421
ISBN-10: 022602542X
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 19 halftones, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Historical Studies of Urban America

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru specialiștii în urbanism și istoricii care doresc să înțeleagă rădăcinile suburbanizării americane. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată asupra modului în care logistica de război a modelat orașele moderne, dincolo de mitul eficienței industriale. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei interesați de intersecția dintre politicile publice, drepturile civile și dezvoltarea industrială în secolul XX.

Despre autor

Sarah Jo Peterson este un cercetător independent cu o carieră de peste două decenii în domeniul planificării urbane. Expertiza sa profesională în urbanism îi permite să analizeze arhivele istorice dintr-o perspectivă tehnică, concentrându-se pe mecanismele de guvernare și dezvoltare regională. În Planning the Home Front, Peterson sintetizează ani de cercetare asupra modului în care infrastructura socială și industrială au fost negociate în Statele Unite în timpul perioadei New Deal și a celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.

Descriere scurtă

Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a “date which will live in infamy”; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the community that grew up around it attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the United States during World War II. Together, they helped build the nation’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” but Willow Run also became the site of repeated political conflicts over how to build suburbia while mobilizing for total war.
In Planning the Home Front, Sarah Jo Peterson offers readers a portrait of the American people—industrialists and labor leaders, federal officials and municipal leaders, social reformers, industrial workers, and their families—that lays bare the foundations of community, the high costs of racism, and the tangled process of negotiation between New Deal visionaries and wartime planners. By tying the history of suburbanization to that of the home front, Peterson uncovers how the United States planned and built industrial regions in the pursuit of war, setting the stage for the suburban explosion that would change the American landscape when the war was won.

Notă biografică

Sarah Jo Peterson is an independent scholar with over twenty years of experience in urban planning.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Chronology

Introduction

1 The Bomber Plant
2 The Local Response to Sudden Industrialization
3 Housing for Defense
4 The Battle for Bomber City
5 What’s Wrong with Willow Run?
6 Building Bombers
7 Building Communities
8 A Bomber an Hour
9 Confronting Race

Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Archival Sources and Collection Abbreviations
Notes
Index

Recenzii

“Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communitiesat Willow Run by independent scholar, Sarah Jo Peterson is a lucid account of the planning problems inherent in a World War II defense plant. Peterson skillfully weaves a narrative from the ad hoc, disjointed and participatory efforts which included housing for newcomers in an underdeveloped exurban region all at once and right away.”

“Planning the Home Front: Building Bombers and Communities at Willow Run is a step-by-step account of local issues (particularly housing and transportation, but intermixed with racism, sexism, and classism) that challenged the residents and migrants—both managers and laborers—of Washtenaw and Wayne counties. Extensive notes detail the numerous primary sources that support Peterson’s argument along with her visits to eight different archives to locate documents that had probably remained untouched since the 1940s. . . . Peterson knows the material, and she explains it well, utilizing reams of official records and documents as well as various oral histories.”

“Through the compelling story of Willow Run, Sarah Jo Peterson illuminates the system of participatory planning—at once contentious, chaotic, and cooperative—that characterized the Arsenal of Democracy. Peterson skillfully weaves together the voices of ordinary Americans as well as national and local government officials, corporate bosses, and union leaders to produce a finely textured and original account of how the wartime planning process responded to and shaped industrial expansion, migration, and suburbanization. Highly recommended.”

“Planning the Home Front is a highly original contribution to the study of intergovernmental relations and many other fields besides. This book will appeal greatly to historians of the home front, business, urban affairs, politics, and the history of American city planning, to name just a few. Drawing on personal recollections, federal government documents, state government documents, city council minutes, and a vast array of newspaper accounts, Sarah Jo Peterson’s research is quite impressive.”

“In the tradition of the best historical and sociological work in urban studies, Planning the Home Front shows that cities rise not simply because of spatial succession or in response to forces of supply and demand. Sarah Jo Peterson meticulously reconstructs the messy negotiations between competing interests that actually build urban places. The result is a remarkably compelling narrative that will be of great interest to both historians and planners.”

“The usefulness of this book for those interested in Michigan’s industrial and urban history is obvious. Perhaps less obvious, but still a strength of Peterson’s work, is how it advances an understanding of mid-century urban planning in the US.”

“ Peterson reminds us that World War II had complex, far-reaching effects on American society . . .  Planning the Home Front is a valuable addition to current scholarly literature on wartime defense industry towns and the relations between different levels of government, business and labor interests, and various community groups.”