{"product_id":"charleston-reborn-fritz-p-hamer-9781596290204","title":"Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard and World War II","description":"As the nation entered World War II, the city of Charleston struggled with a stagnant economy that had never recovered from the Civil War. The glory days of the antebellum period were decades in the past, yet Charlestonians drew their pride from a bygone era, rather than from hope for the future. \u003cp\u003eThis compelling look at Charleston's twentieth-century history chronicles the changes and challenges faced by Charleston as its population exploded in response to expansion of the Charleston Navy Yard. As World War II called for the United States to flex her industrial might, the shipyard rose to meet the challenge and 55,000 new residents flooded into the city. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharleston was unprepared for such dramatic expansion: the need for labor at the yard meant the sudden appearance of good jobs, but also resulted in severe housing shortages, food rationing and dilemmas over race and gender. Ongoing workforce shortages forced the navy to look to sources of labor previously regarded as unsuitable--African Americans and women--causing dramatic changes to the status quo. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor and historian Fritz Hamer makes use of written documents and oral histories to argue that the war's effects pulled a reluctant Holy City into the twentieth century, setting the stage for further modernization and growth. Warm personal accounts from a range of individuals who witnessed the city's dramatic change provide a human element in Hamer's solid research. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell written and imaginatively conceived, Charleston Reborn will interest the general reader as well as a wide range of historians--from students of World War II and chroniclers of gender and racial history, to urban historians and scholars of the modern American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fritz P. Hamer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 159629020X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781596290204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.72h x 6.78w x 0.47d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fritz P. Hamer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938539667711,"sku":"9781596290204","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_262ee6ee-9565-44cf-92e6-f30c1cdc8323.jpg?v=1681436286","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charleston-reborn-fritz-p-hamer-9781596290204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}