Middle Class Union: Organizing the “Consuming Public” in Post–World War I America. By Mark W. Robbins . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017. viii + 219 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $70.00. ISBN: 978-0-472-13033-7.

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Scanlon
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Union Organizing ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
World War ◽  
Ann Arbor

Finding “pax plantation” at Camp Gordon, Georgia: Historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips and World War I

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-599
Author(s):  
John David Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
World War I ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Intelligence ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University

This article examines the World War I service of the University of Michigan historian Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1877–1934). Phillips worked first with black recruits as a volunteer officer for the Young Men's Christian Association at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and later as a U.S. Army Military Intelligence officer in Washington, DC. In these years, Phillips ranked as America's foremost authority on the antebellum South generally and of African American slavery in particular. In 1918 he published his landmarkAmerican Negro Slavery. While on leave from Ann Arbor, Phillips taught English and French, planned educational and recreational programs, and supervised the management and construction of buildings at Camp Gordon's segregated facilities. Phillips's daily interactions with black troops in the cantonment reaffirmed—at least as he saw it—his conclusions that North American slavery had been a relatively benign institution, his belief in the virtues of plantation paternalism and in the management of subject peoples by educated whites, and his attitude that contemporary race relations were generally harmonious. Phillips's observations of African American recruits validated his conviction that blacks benefited most from white-run, regimented organizations and strengthened his belief in economic assimilation and social segregation. His military intelligence work confirmed Phillips's overall commitment to conservative change, whether in foreign or race relations.

Henry Krehbiel: German American, Music Critic

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Joseph Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
American Music ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
World War ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Postwar America ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
German Immigrant ◽  
To Come ◽  
Genteel Culture

The “dean” of New York's music critics a century ago, Henry Krehbiel–born in Ann Arbor to German immigrant parents—was emblematic of a vibrant intellectual community that blended Germanic and American traits. As a dominant propagator of a distinctively wholesome American Wagnerism, he embodied both German Kunst and American meliorism. As a self-made critic, he combined weighty scholarly learning and prose with a nose for news and a popularizing bent. During World War I, the German enemy incited no more patriotic response than his. But Krehbiel was increasingly stranded in postwar America. A bearer of genteel culture, he retained his iron criterion of uplift; no such aesthetic anchor would stabilize art in times to come.

Alternate Realms of Authority

2018 ◽  
pp. 214-260
Author(s):  
Sujata S. Mody
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
World War I ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
World War ◽  
Strategic Responses ◽  
Women's Speech ◽  
The Impact

Chapter 5 examines two landmark Hindi short stories that contested aspects of Dwivedi’s literary agenda. In ‘Dulāīvālī’ (quilt-woman), Banga Mahila used regional and domestic women’s speech in addition to Dwivedi’s preferred standard, Khari Boli prose. Her fictional exploration of the impact of nationalist ideals on middle-class Bengali women in the Hindi-belt further challenged the patriarchal authority with which Dwivedi and other nationalists sought to shape an emergent nation. Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, in ‘Usne kahā thā’ (she had said), employed regional/ethnic speech that was also gendered, as masculine and vulgar, once again flouting Dwivedi’s preferences for an upright, Khari Boli standard. His story, featuring a Sikh soldier fighting in Europe during World War I, upheld some nationalist ideals, but also defied conventional mores. Both stories underwent extensive editorial revisions, yet there remains a record in their final published versions of their authors’ defiance, and of Dwivedi’s strategic responses to such challenges.

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