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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

By: Laura McEnaney

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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

By: Laura McEnaney

Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into the front line. The reliance on atomic weaponry as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy cast a mushroom cloud over everyday life. American citizens now had to imagine a new kind of war, one in which they were both combatants and targets. It was the Federal Civil Defense Administration's job to encourage citizens to adapt to their nuclear present and future. As McEnaney demonstrates, the creation of a civil defense program produced new dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against internal and external threats. Conflicts arose about the relative responsibilities of state and citizen to fund and implement a home-front security program. The defense establishment's resolution was to popularize and privatize military preparedness. The doctrine of "self-help" defense demanded that citizens become autonomous rather than rely on the federal government for protection. Families would reconstitute themselves as paramilitary units that could quash subversion from within and absorb attack from without. Because it solicited an unprecedented degree of popular involvement, the FCDA offers a unique opportunity to explore how average citizens, community leaders, and elected officials both participated in and resisted the creation of the national security state. Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, McEnaney uncovers the broad range of responses to this militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age. Her work sheds new light on the important postwar debate about what total military preparedness would actually mean for American society.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843553

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9781400843558

Postwar

Waging Peace in Chicago

By: Laura McEnaney

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Postwar

Waging Peace in Chicago

By: Laura McEnaney

When World War II ended, Americans celebrated a military victory abroad, but the meaning of peace at home was yet to be defined. From roughly 1943 onward, building a postwar society became the new national project, and every interest group involved in the war effort—from business leaders to working-class renters—held different visions for the war's aftermath. In Postwar, Laura McEnaney plumbs the depths of this period to explore exactly what peace meant to a broad swath of civilians, including apartment dwellers, single women and housewives, newly freed Japanese American internees, African American migrants, and returning veterans. In her fine-grained social history of postwar Chicago, McEnaney puts ordinary working-class people at the center of her investigation. What she finds is a working-class war liberalism—a conviction that the wartime state had taken things from people, and that the postwar era was about reclaiming those things with the state's help. McEnaney examines vernacular understandings of the state, exploring how people perceived and experienced government in their lives. For Chicago's working-class residents, the state was not clearly delineated. The local offices of federal agencies, along with organizations such as the Travelers Aid Society and other neighborhood welfare groups, all became what she calls the state in the neighborhood, an extension of government to serve an urban working class recovering from war. Just as they had made war, the urban working class had to make peace, and their requests for help, large and small, constituted early dialogues about the role of the state during peacetime. Postwar examines peace as its own complex historical process, a passage from conflict to postconflict that contained human struggles and policy dilemmas that would shape later decades as fatefully as had the war.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812295447

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9780812295443

Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

By: Laura Micheletti Puaca

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Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

By: Laura Micheletti Puaca

Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980

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278

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UNC Press Books

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1469610817

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9781469610818

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 2

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 2

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 2 of 8, pages 505-1212. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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131262003X

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9781312620032

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 8 of 8. Sources & Index to a genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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1312620420

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The Big Pig Gig

Celebrating Pigs in the City

By: Laura Pulfer

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The Big Pig Gig

Celebrating Pigs in the City

By: Laura Pulfer

Cincinnati was transformed to Cin-sow-nati in the summer of 2000. The Big Pig Gig, a public art initiative, brought local artists, businesses, community and arts organizations, schools and individuals together to celebrate Cincinnati's porkopolis past. More than 400 decorated life-size fiberglass pigs were placed in downtown Cincinnati, OH and Covington and Newport, KY. The Big Pig Gig: Celebrating Pigs in the City is the official keepsake publication of the Big Pig Gig. Containing over 300 gorgeous 4-color photographs by well-known Cincinnati photographers, you will learn how the Big Pig Gig came to be such a success in Cincinnati.

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1882203704

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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

By: Laura McEnaney

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Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties

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Princeton University Press

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Postwar

Waging Peace in Chicago

By: Laura McEnaney

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Waging Peace in Chicago

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Laura Z

The Early Years and Years of Fulfillment

By: Laura Z. Hobson

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The Early Years and Years of Fulfillment

By: Laura Z. Hobson

Continues the author's story of personal crises, highlighted by the irony and humor that paralleled her professional triumph, and includes anecdotes of the famous and infamous

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Civil Defense Begins at Home

Civil Defense Begins at Home

Postwar

Postwar

Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Searching for Scientific Womanpower

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 2

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 2

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

The Big Pig Gig

The Big Pig Gig

Civil Defense Begins at Home

Civil Defense Begins at Home

Postwar

Postwar

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