Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith.
نوع المادة : نصاللغة: الإنجليزية الناشر:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019وصف:xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781421427270
- 1421427273
- Germans -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century
- Propaganda, Anti-German -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- United States
- Moral panics -- United States
- Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Ethnic relations
- E183.8.G3 S56 2019
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات Temporary Shelves | الرفوف المؤقتة | E183.8.G3 S56 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30020000103430 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | E183.8.G3 S56 2019 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30020000103429 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
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.
"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 paranoia can be found in Anglo-Americans' deep-seated beliefs of racial and millennial progress--that they were a race facing potential decline and that the once-admired German enemy was a degenerated "Other" posing an existential threat to the United States and Anglo-Saxon identity. This book explores what the Great War meant to a large portion of the American population and provides a historic precedent for modern-day fears of "dangerous" foreign Others. Smith shows that Americans, then as now, have allowed exaggerated fears and overheated rhetoric reduce their ability to accurately calculate the genuine risks of living in the modern world. It is this miscalculation that has fueled American hatred, fear, and disgust toward the country's enemies and led to the surrender of some of American's most sacred and cherished civil liberties for the sake of security"-- Provided by publisher.