Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen

TitleUncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsCapozzola, Christopher Joseph Nicodemus
Number of Pages343
PublisherOxford University Press
CityOxford
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Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World War I led to a significant increase in power for the federal government. Christopher Capozzola shows how, when the war began, Americans at first mobilized society by stressing duty, obligation, and responsibility over rights and freedoms. 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 the federal government. In the end, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens.

URLhttps://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335491.001.0001/acprof-9780195335491
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