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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778977403321

Autore

Hennen John <1951->

Titolo

The americanization of West Virginia : creating a modern industrial state, 1916-1925 / / John C. Hennen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

0-8131-5876-1

0-8131-7010-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

975.4/042

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - West Virginia

Americanization

West Virginia History To 1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 War Propoganda and the Mobilization o Public Opinion in West Virginia, 1916-1918; 2 National and West Virginia Perspectives on Higher Education and the Delivery of War Propoganda; 3 National and State War Bureaucracies and the American Regulatory Consensus; 4 Postwar Strategies for Promoting Industrial Americanization, Antiradicalism, and Habits of Industry; 5 The Political Culture of the Red Scare in West Virginia, 1919-1921

6 Welfare Capitalism, the American Plan-Open-shop Movement, and the Triumph of Business Unionism 7 Voluntary Associations and Americanization in the 1920's; 8 The Sanctification of Industrial Americanization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America publicity video.



But as John C. Hennen shows in this piercing analysis of early-twentieth-century American political culture, from 1916 to 1925 ""Americanization"" became the theme -- indeed, the script --