Warfare State
World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199930357
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages346 pages
- Size 231x155x25 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 0
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Short description:
Warfare State shows how the federal government, in the course of World War II, vastly expanded its influence over American society. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority.
MoreLong description:
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 control, income taxation, and the war bond program, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front, linking their every action to the fate of the combat soldier. As they worked for the American Soldier, Americans habituated themselves to the authority of the government. Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state-particularly in the case of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all, the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insights into the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, and the legitimacy of the state in wartime.
World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and government. Warfare State tells the story of this dramatic transformation in American life.
But what he [Professor Sparrow] has accomplished, and it is no small thing, is to show how the Roosevelt administration induced people to buy bonds, pay extremely high taxes, and otherwise support the war effort with a minimum of coercion and a maximum of coaxing. This is an interesting and important story and one that he tells well
Table of Contents:
Introduction: War and the Popular Foundations of the State
Part I. Ideology, Political Culture, and State Formation
Chapter 1. War Displaces Its Analog
Chapter 2. Morale and the National Moment
Chapter 3. Scapegoating the State
Part II. Encountering the State in Everyday Life
Chapter 4. Buying Our Boys Back
Chapter 5. Work or Fight
Chapter 6. Citizen-Soldiers
Conclusion: The Paradox of Rights in the Warfare State
Appendix
Notes
Index
