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Bibliographic Information
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Uncle Sam wants you : World War I and the making of the modern American citizen
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Capozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus, 1971- ,
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- Oxford University Press,
- Pub date:
- 2008.
- Pages:
- ix, 334 p. :
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Uncle Sam wants you : World War I and the making of the modern American citizen
Capozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus, 1971- ,
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Personal Author:
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Capozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus, 1971- ,
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Title:
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Uncle Sam wants you : World War I and the making of the modern American citizen / Christopher Capozzola.
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Publication info:
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Physical description:
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ix, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Contents:
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The spirit of selective service : conscription and coercion -- Between God and country : objecting to the wartime state -- The obligation to volunteer : women and coercive voluntarism -- Policing the home front : from vigilance to vigilantism -- Responsible speech : rights in a culture of obligation -- Enemy aliens : loyalty and the birth of the surveillance state -- Armistice and after.
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Review:
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"Christopher Capozzola 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 home-front volunteers or counted themselves among the thousands of conscientious objectors, antiwar radicals, or German enemy aliens Americans of the World War I era created a new American state and new ways of being American citizens."--BOOK JACKET.
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Subject term:
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World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States. -- --.
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Political culture--United States--History--20th century. -- -- --.
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Consensus (Social sciences)--United States--History--20th century. )-- -- --.
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Patriotism--United States--History. -- --.
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Citizenship--United States--History. -- --.
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United States--Social conditions--1865-1918. -- --.
