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America in the Great War : the Rise of the War Welfare State.
Demonstrates how, in order to mobilize the USA for World War I, the US government created a war welfare state in which groups having the largest bargaining power - businessmen, labour and military leaders, social reformers and pro-war lobbies - received the largest rewards for their co-operation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 AEF.