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A carregar... Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (edição 2010)por Christopher Capozzola (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is a very well researched book on how american society changed itself after entering the Great War. Capozzola's analysis of the beginnings of the surveillance state coupled with a burgeoning anti-immigrant mentality gives one pause to think about our own times. ( ) This is a book about how World War I transformed the nature of the American state and its relationship to society. Capozzola uses the "I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting poster as a trope to describe how the state became more invasive during the war. He cites two competing ideas of the relationship. Volunteerism had long been the American call war, but the needs of modern warfare in Europe were much higher than volunteerism could accommodate. As a result, the state expanded its coercive power. It limited civil rights such as freedom of speech and expression. It crushed any dissent to the war effort with jail time. When official methods did not work, or were not convenient, the state gave support to voluntary associations like the American Protective League that used vigilantism to harass people and organizations opposed to the war. The APL was indicative of how the United States dealt with the conflict between volunteerism and coercion: it concealed it. The draft was not presented as coercive, but was the entire populace volunteering en mass. The APL was a form of coercion, but kept up the facade that it was just patriotic citizens protecting their country. Similarly, the American Legion and the KKK policed the unpatriotic after the war. By then, however, the acceptability of violence had dropped because their was no war effort to support. The American Legion withdrew into politics while the KKK was suppressed by the state. The change during the war was unmistakable and unreversible. The state had expanded dramatically, including an income tax, selective service and a greater ability to monitor society. Although it was not as great a change as was seen in the New Deal, WWI laid the groundwork for a state more intrusive than any seen before in the United States. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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, whether they were some of the four million men drafted under the Selective Service Act or the tens of millions of home-front volunteers, Americans of the World War I era created a new American state, and new ways of being American citizens. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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