Warfare State
World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
Although common wisdom and much scholarship assume that big government gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal's welfare programs.Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price con…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-979107-1
- EAN: 9780199791071
- Produktnummer: 13998963
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 9'767 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 halftones
Über den Autor
James T. Sparrow is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.
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