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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffer, Ronald, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

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 (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Demonstrates how, in order to mobilize the USA for World War I, the US government created a war welfare state in which groups having the largest bargaining power - businessmen, labour and military leaders, social reformers and pro-war lobbies - received the largest rewards for their co-operation.

Contents:

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 AEF

12. The Treatment of ""Shell-shock"" Cases in the AEF: A Microcosm of the War Welfare StateEpilogue; Appendix; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771120-0

1-280-43991-2

0-19-802159-3

OCLC:

476006089