| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; 1 War propaganda and the Mobilization o Public Opinion in West Virginia, 1916-1918; 2 National and West Virginia Perspectives on Higher Education and the Delivery of War Propaganda; 3 National and State War Bureaucracies and the American Regulatory Consensus; 4 Postwar Strategies for Promoting Industrial Americanization, Antiradicalism, and Habits of Industry; 5 The Political Culture of the Red Scare in West Virginia, 1919-1921 |
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6 Welfare Capitalism, the American Plan-Open-shop Movement, and the Triumph of Business Unionism 7 Voluntary Associations and Americanization in the 1920's; 8 The Sanctification of Industrial Americanization; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Local teachers and ministers extolling the virtues of hard work and loyalty to God and country. Veterans' groups and women's clubs promoting the military fighting radicalism, and equating business and patriotism. Industrial leaders gaining legal as well as moral influence over national domestic policy. Such scenes might seem to be lifted from a Sinclair Lewis novel or a Contract with America publicity video. But as John C. Hennen shows in this piercing analysis of early-twentieth-century American political culture, from 1916 to 1925 "Americanization" became the theme -- indeed, the script |
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Americanization |
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West Virginia History To 1950 |
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World War, 1914-1918 West Virginia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-210) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- West Virginia
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Americanization.
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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Americanization
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Industrialisierung
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Geschichte 1916-1925.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- West Virginia.
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Americanization.
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West Virginia -- History -- To 1950.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146231
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West Virginia
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West Virginia
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West Virginia -- History -- To 1950.
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
95032714 |
| ISBN |
0813170109 |
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9780813170107 |
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