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Roger W. Lotchin (Author)

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Publication Date: January 30, 1992 | ISBN-10: 0195047796 | ISBN-13: 978-0195047790

Urbanization and wars have been two of the most important continuities in modern history. This book explains how the two became connected by describing the origins and historic development of the military-industrial complex in the California urban heartland. The union between military and metropolis arose during World War I from the needs of the Navy and the ambitions of California's evolving cities. These growing cities demanded stable economies to undergird their quest for urban greatness just at the time that the Navy needed Pacific coast base sites and supportive civilian political constituencies. The exigencies of the nation state combined with the aspirations of its "imperial" cities to create an alliance between war and urban society, which was enriched during the 1920s, World War II, and the Cold War. Here, Lotchin illustrates how United States warfare was changed into California welfare.

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"A major contribution to the history of the American West and to our understanding of the political economy of twentieth-century America." -- Pacific Historical Review "Fortress California is an important and impressive book. Lotchin offers a major reinterpretation of the military-industrial complex from its urban roots up." -- Journal of Urban History "It is rare when a study makes a significant creative contribution to history with a radically new concept. Roger W. Lotchin has achieved this breakthrough with Fortress California." -- Journal of the West "With this book, Lotchin emerges as a leading contributor to a growing body of work in American urban history that may best be characterized as critical realism." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Hardcover: 440 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 30, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195047796
ISBN-13: 978-0195047790
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,288,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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