Uncle Sam Wants You

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ID20028823
AuthorsChristopher Capozzola (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages368
Publication date2008-07-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUncle Sam Wants You (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335491.001.0001
OpenAlexW2502824810
Open LibraryOL10135327M
ISBN9780195335491
LanguageEN
Citations received44

In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I, with little history of conscription, an army smaller than Romania's, and a political culture that saw little role for the federal government other than delivering the mail. This book tells the story of the American homefront in World War I, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization led to a significant increase in power in Washington. It shows how — in the absence of a strong federal government — Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. In clubs, schools, churches, and workplaces, Americans governed each other. But the heated temper of war quickly unleashed coercion on an unprecedented scale, making wartime America the scene of some of the nation's most serious political violence, including notorious episodes of outright mob violence. To solve this problem, Americans turned over increasing amounts of power to state institutions. In the end, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of homefront volunteers — or counted themselves among the thousands of conscientious objectors, anti-war radicals, or German enemy aliens — Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens

Coercion (linguistics) · Duty · Government (linguistics) · Military service · Obligation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · State (computer science) · Vietnam War · World War II · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact · 1865-1945 · 1914-1918 · 19th century · 20th century · American history · American history: c 1800 to c 1900 · Citizenship · Consensus (Social sciences) · Constitutional law · Government · Heads of State and Heads of government · History · History - U.S · History of specific subjects · History: American · Jurisprudence & General Issues · Legal History · Monaco · Monarchy · Patriotism · Political Culture · Social aspects · Social conditions · united states · United States - 19th Century · USA · Women's Studies - General · World War

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