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Uncle Sam Wants You : World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
Christopher Capozzola
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paperback. A powerful account of America's first mass mobilization, revealing how the homefront tensions of World War I dramatically changed the modern American state. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199734795
SKU
V9780199734795
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About Christopher Capozzola
Christopher Capozzola is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Reviews for Uncle Sam Wants You : World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
This book demonstrates the singular significance of America's brief but crucial experience with modern war in 1917 and 1918.
Michael S. Neiberg, The Journal of American History
Michael S. Neiberg, The Journal of American History