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The Americanization of West Virginia : creating a modern industrial state, 1916-1925 / John C. Hennen

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Hennen, John, 1951-
Published
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1996]
Copyright Date
©1996
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Contents
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 and 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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ISBN
0813170109 (electronic bk.)
9780813170107 (electronic bk.)
081311960X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813119601 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-210) and index.
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