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Autore |
Schaffer Ronald |
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America in the Great War [[electronic resource] ] : the rise of the war welfare state / / Ronald Schaffer |
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New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1991 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-992331-0 |
1-4237-3613-3 |
1-60129-652-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (473 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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World War, 1914-1918 - United States |
United States Politics and government 1913-1921 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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