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Age of fear : othering and American identity during World War I / Zachary Smith

Smith, Zachary, 1980- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2019]

xi, 233 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

978-1-4214-2727-0 (hardcover); 1-4214-2727-3

978-1-4214-2728-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2018020735

9781421427270

OCoLC: 1099849116     

NP 5250      Ähnliche Literatur

E183.8.G3

305.800973

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 15.23 (Erster Weltkrieg)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Antigermanismus ; Erster Weltkrieg      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Germans -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century ; Propaganda, Anti-German -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- United States ; Moral panics -- United States ; Germany -- Foreign public opinion, American -- History -- 20th century ; United States -- Ethnic relations

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"--