America in the Great War : the rise of the war welfare state / Ronald Schaffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

United States--Politics and government--1913-1921.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Summary:

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war at all, considering we fought for scarcely over a year in a primarily European struggle. But, as Ronald Schaffer recounts in this fascinating new book, the Great War wrought a dramatic revolution in America, wrenching a diverse, unregulated, nineteenth-century society into the modern

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Introduction; 1. Managing American Minds; 2. Controlling Dissent; 3. The Managed Economy: Creating the Regulatory System; 4. The War Economy: Motivations and Results; 5. The War and Social Reform: Workers and the Poor; 6. The Great War and the Equality Issue: African-Americans and Women; 7. The Great War, Prohibition, and the Campaign for Social Purity; 8. American Intellectuals and the Control of War: Dewey, Lippmann, and Bourne; 9. The University at War: Veblen, Yerkes, Beard, and Cattell; 10. The Battleground

11. Motivating the AEF12. The Treatment of "Shell-shock" Cases in the AEF: A Microcosm of the War Welfare State; Epilogue; Appendix; Essay on Sources; Index; Footnotes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 10; Chapter 10; Chapter 12; Appendix

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-992331-0

1-4237-3613-3

1-60129-652-5

OCLC:

778339552