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03475aam a2200517 i 4500 001 2EAD84D4550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180903s2019 mdua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018020735 020 $a 1421427273 020 $a 9781421427270 035 $a (OCoLC)1057775386 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d BDX $d MNN $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-gx--- $a e-gx--- 050 00 $a E183.8.G3 $b S56 2019 082 00 $a 305.800973 $2 23 100 1 $a Smith, Zachary, $d 1980- $e author. 245 10 $a Age of fear : $b othering and American identity during World War I / $c Zachary Smith. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xi, 233 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 611 27 $a World War (1914-1918) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180746 650 0 $a Germans $z United States $x History $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Germany $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Propaganda, Anti-German $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Moral panics $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Ethnic relations. 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 650 7 $a Germans $x Public opinion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00942140 650 7 $a Moral panics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01740383 650 7 $a Propaganda, Anti-German. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078974 650 7 $a Public opinion, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354087 650 7 $a Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354981 651 7 $a Germany. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190402024228.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2EAD84D4550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search