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The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1889-1918
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1889-1918

The history of the peace movement in the United States was one of dramatic change: in the mid-IKWs it consisted of a few provincial societies; by 1912 it had become eminently respectable and listed among its members an impressive number of the nation's leaders; by 1918 it was once again weak and remote from those who formulated national policy. Along with these fluctuations went equally substantial changes of leadership and purpose that, as C. Roland Marchand emphasizes, reflected the motives of the various reform groups that successively joined and dominated the movement. Most of those who joined were not devoted solely to the cause of world peace, but saw in the programs of the movement a ...

The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1898-1918
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The American Peace Movement and Social Reform, 1898-1918

The history of the peace movement in the United States was one of dramatic change: in the mid-IKWs it consisted of a few provincial societies; by 1912 it had become eminently respectable and listed among its members an impressive number of the nation's leaders; by 1918 it was once again weak and remote from those who formulated national policy. Along with these fluctuations went equally substantial changes of leadership and purpose that, as C. Roland Marchand emphasizes, reflected the motives of the various reform groups that successively joined and dominated the movement. Most of those who joined were not devoted solely to the cause of world peace, but saw in the programs of the movement a ...

Advertising the American Dream
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

Advertising the American Dream

It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American Dream looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses. As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. Advertisers may only have dimly perceived the profound transformations America was experiencing. However, the advertising they created is a wonderfully graphic record of the underlying assumptions and changing values in American culture. With ex...

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 3, The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 3, The Globalizing of America, 1913-1945

Describes the history of the foreign relations of the United States during a period when they emerged as a key global power

The Hello Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

The Hello Girls

In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France at General Pershing’s explicit request. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. While suffragettes picketed the White House and President Wilson struggled to persuade a segregationist Congress to give women of all races the vote, these courageous young women swore the army oath and settled into their new roles. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges they faced in a war zone where male soldiers wooed, mocked, and ultimately celebrated them. The army discharged the last Hello Girls in 1920, the year Congress ratified the Nineteenth Amendment. When they sailed home, they were unexpectedly dismissed wit...

Women Strike for Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 356

Women Strike for Peace

Foreword by Catharine R. StimpsonAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Raising a Hue and Cry"2. Prelude to a Peace Strike3. Who Are These Women?4. Organizing a "Nonorganization"5. Ladies' Day at the Capitol6. A Not-so-funny Thing Happened on the Way to Disarmament7. "The Women's Vote Is the Peace Vote"8. Not Our Sons, Not Your Sons, Not Their Sons: Hell, No, We Won't Let Them Go!9. We Have Met the Enemy--and They Are Our Sisters!ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Over Here
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 987

Over Here

Kennedy tells the story of America's encounter with the Great War of 1914-1918. Because the United States became involved at the height of the crucially formative Progressive Era, 'Over Here' also sheds fresh light on the nature of Progressivism, as well as on the major themes 20th century American history.

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

This third volume of the updated edition describes how the United States became a global power during the period from 1913 to 1945.

Partisans and Poets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Partisans and Poets

A study of American poetry and the political culture of World War I.

The Search for Negotiated Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

The Search for Negotiated Peace

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-10
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The First World War was an epic event of huge proportions that lasted over four years and involved the armies of more than twenty nations, resulting in 30 million casualties, including more than 8 million killed. Set against the backdrop of this massive carnage, The Search for Negotiated Peace is the gripping story of the events that moved high profile American and European citizens, particularly women, into the international peace movement. This small, transatlantic network put forth proposals for changing the international system of negotiation. They supported non-annexationist war aims and attempted to discredit nations’ secret diplomacy, militarism and narrowly nationalistic practices....