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Age of Fear : Othering and American Identity during World War I /

"Why were Americans in 1917 willing to sacrifice so many lives to win a war against a distant enemy? In Age of Fear, Zachary Smith seeks to explain the social and cultural origins of "Anglo-Saxon" American fear of Germans during World War I. He argues that the source of wartime parano...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Zachary, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Identity, decline, and preparedness, 1914-1917
  • The emergence of the internal enemy other, 1914-1917
  • The war on the internal enemy other, 1917-1918
  • Resisting regressive militarism, 1917-1918
  • Toward the democratic millennium, 1914-1918
  • Epilogue: Fear, othering and identity in the postwar United States.