02907nam 2200481Ia 450 991078336990332120230331015820.00-19-992331-01-4237-3613-31-60129-652-5(CKB)1000000000028521(EBL)834740(OCoLC)778339552(MiAaPQ)EBC4700961(MiAaPQ)EBC834740(Au-PeEL)EBL834740(EXLCZ)99100000000002852119940711d1991 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmerica in the Great War[electronic resource] the rise of the war welfare state /Ronald SchafferNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press19911 online resource (473 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504904-7 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 Battleground11. 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; AppendixAfter 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 modernWorld War, 1914-1918United StatesUnited StatesPolitics and government1913-1921World War, 1914-1918973.91/3Schaffer Ronald779960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783369903321America in the Great War1766874UNINA