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Author:
Smith, Zachary, 1980- author.
Title:
Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith.
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
World War (1914-1918)
Germans--United States--History--History--20th century.
Germany--History--History--20th century.
Propaganda, Anti-German--United States--History--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States.
Moral panics--United States.
United States--Ethnic relations.
Ethnic relations.
Germans--Public opinion.
Moral panics.
Propaganda, Anti-German.
Public opinion, American.
Social aspects.
Germany.
United States.
1900-1999
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) 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.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
1421427273
9781421427270
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1057775386
LCCN:
2018020735
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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