America in the Great War :: the rise of the war welfare state /

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems...

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1. Verfasser: Schaffer, Ronald
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Zusammenfassung:After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event. It conjures up images of trenches, horse-drawn wagons, and old-fashioned wide-brimmed helmets--a conflict closer to the Civil War than to our own time. It hardly seems an American war at all, considering we fought for scarcely over a year in a primarily European struggle. But, as Ronald Schaffer recounts in this fascinating new book, the Great War wrought a dramatic revolution in America, wrenching a diverse, unregulated, nineteenth-century society into the modern.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages)
Format: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-235) and index.
ISBN:1423736133
9781423736134
9780198021599
0198021593
0199923310
9780199923311
1601296525
9781601296528

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