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Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith.
Author
Smith, Zachary, 1980-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Description
xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
E183.8.G3 S56 2019
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Subject(s)
Germans
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United States
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Public opinion
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History
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20th century
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Propaganda, Anti-German
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United States
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History
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20th century
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World War, 1914-1918
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Social aspects
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United States
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Moral panics
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United States
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Germany
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Foreign public opinion, American
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Ethnic relations
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Summary note
"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
Contents
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.
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ISBN
9781421427270 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
1421427273 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2018020735
OCLC
1057775386
Other standard number
40028910211
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