03268nam 2200637 450 991045518380332120200520144314.00-8131-5876-10-8131-7010-9(CKB)111004368603310(EBL)1915406(SSID)ssj0000102530(PQKBManifestationID)12025851(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102530(PQKBWorkID)10060487(PQKB)10679113(MiAaPQ)EBC1915406(OCoLC)47011236(MdBmJHUP)muse44183(Au-PeEL)EBL1915406(CaPaEBR)ebr11009856(CaONFJC)MIL691131(OCoLC)900344808(EXLCZ)9911100436860331020150203h19961996 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe americanization of West Virginia creating a modern industrial state, 1916-1925 /John C. HennenLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1996.©19961 online resource (244 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59849-5 0-8131-1960-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1919-19216 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; IndexLocal 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 --World War, 1914-1918West VirginiaAmericanizationWest VirginiaHistoryTo 1950Electronic books.World War, 1914-1918Americanization.975.4/042Hennen John1951-1032278MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455183803321The americanization of West Virginia2450057UNINA