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Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City
- Title
- Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City / Joseph Gustaitis.
- Author
- Gustaitis, Joseph, 1944-
- Publication
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 348 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Chicago: microcosm of America -- Part I. Before the war -- "Throw the dictionary at it": Chicago in 1913 -- Preparedness and public opinion: why Chicago went to war -- Part II. Chicago's soldiers -- "Kia-Kiak": the Black Hawk division -- Black devils and partridges: the 370th Infantry Regiment -- Part III. Life on the home front -- Wheatless, meatless, and coalless: patriotic Chicago -- Chicago's bright ideas: the four minute men and the American Patriotic League -- Part IV. Chicago women and the sexual revolution -- "The work is there to do": Chicago women in wartime -- "Sex o'clock in America": Chicago and the first sexual revolution -- Part V. Chicago's changing ethnic landscape -- "The biggest town in the world": the great migration -- "That was music": Chicago jazz -- "Sweet home Chicago": the Chicago blues -- "Coming to stay": the beginning of Mexican Chicago -- The end of Kultur: the plight of Chicago's Germans -- Part VI. After the war -- "Taking new heart": organized labor and the postwar strikes -- "Eyes to the future": Chicago in 1919.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-10282
- ISBN
- 9780809334988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0809334984 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015042807
- OCLC
- 919104199
- Author
- Gustaitis, Joseph, 1944- author.
- Title
- Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City / Joseph Gustaitis.
- Publisher
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- EXAMINES CHICAGO BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER WW I, FOCUSING ON THE CHANGED IT BROUGHT ABOUT.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1875
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-10282