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America in the Great War : the rise of the war welfare state /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423736133 9781423736134 9780198021599 0198021593 0199923310 9780199923311 1601296525 9781601296528 |