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Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I
- Title
- Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith.
- Author
- Smith, Zachary, 1980-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 233 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Subjects
- Propaganda, Anti-German
- Germany
- United States
- World War (1914-1918)
- Social aspects
- Ethnic relations
- World War, 1914-1918 > Social aspects > United States
- Public opinion, American
- Propaganda, Anti-German > United States > History > 20th century
- Germans > United States > Public opinion > History > 20th century
- History
- United States > Ethnic relations
- Germany > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Moral panics > United States
- Germans > Public opinion
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Epilogue: Fear, othering and identity in the postwar United States.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5124
- ISBN
- 9781421427270
- 1421427273
- 9781421427287 (canceled/invalid)
- 1421427281 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018020735
- 40028910211
- OCLC
- 1057775386
- Author
- Smith, Zachary, 1980- author.
- Title
- Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith.
- Publisher
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781421427287
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028910211
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5124