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Age of fear :

(Number (ISBN

1421427281

(Number (ISBN

9781421427287

Erroneous ISBN

1421427273

Erroneous ISBN

9781421427270

Title Proper

Age of fear :

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[Book]

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othering and American identity during World War I /

First Statement of Responsibility

Zachary Smith.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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"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"--

Title

Age of fear.

International Standard Book Number

9781421427270

Germans-- United States-- Public opinion-- History-- 20th century.

Moral panics-- United States.

Propaganda, Anti-German-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

World War, 1914-1918-- Social aspects-- United States.

Ethnic relations.

Germans-- Public opinion.

Moral panics.

Propaganda, Anti-German.

Public opinion, American.

Social aspects.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Discrimination & Race Relations.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Minority Studies.

Germany, Foreign public opinion, American, History, 20th century.

United States, Ethnic relations.

Germany.

United States.

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SOC-- 031000

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Smith, Zachary,1980-

Date of Transaction

20200822182426.0

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[Book]

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