Uncle Sam Wants You
World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
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2010
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973479-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-973479-5 (ISBN)
A powerful account of America's first mass mobilization, revealing how the homefront tensions of World War I dramatically changed the modern American state.
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to the federal government. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.
Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to the federal government. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.
Christopher Capozzola is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Introduction: Uncle Sam Wants You
1. The Spirit of Selective Service: Conscription and Coercion
2. Between God and Country: Objecting to the Wartime State
3. The Obligation to Volunteer: Women and Coercive Voluntarism
4. The Only Badge Needed: From Vigilance to Vigilantism
5. Responsible Speech: Rights in a Culture of Obligation
6. Enemy Aliens: Loyalty and the Birth of the Surveillance State
Conclusion: Armistice and After
Notes
Bibliography
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.7.2010 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 522 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-973479-8 / 0199734798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-973479-5 / 9780199734795 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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