{"product_id":"age-of-fear-9781421427270","title":"Age of Fear","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFear can be more dangerous than the threats we think loom over ushow Germans and German Americans were perceived as a dangerous enemy during World War I.   Although Americans have long celebrated their nation's diversity, they also have consistently harbored suspicions of foreign peoples both at home and abroad. In Age of Fear, Zachary Smith argues that, as World War I grew more menacing and the presumed German threat loomed over the United States, many white Anglo-Saxon Americans grew increasingly concerned about the vulnerability of their race, culture, and authority. Consequently, they directed their long-held apprehensions over ethnic and racial pluralism onto their German neighbors and overseas enemies whom they had once greatly admired.   Smith examines the often racially tinged, apocalyptic arguments made during the war by politicians, propaganda agencies, the press, novelists, and artists. He also assesses citizens' reactions to these messages and explains how the rise of natio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a thoughtful, well-written piece of scholarship . . . the similarities between the war years and the present were clear and impossible to ignore . . . Sadly, for all that has changed in 100 years, the book is a sobering reminder of lessons we have not yet learned.\u003cbr\u003e—Anita Talsma Gaul, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Identity, Decline, and Preparedness, 1914-1917 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The Emergence of the Internal Enemy Other, 1914-1917 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The War on the Internal Enemy Other, 1917-1918 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Resisting Regressive Militarism, 1917-1918 \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Toward the Democratic Millennium, 1914-1918 \u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Fear, Othering, and Identity in the Postwar \u003cbr\u003eUnited States \u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408127926615,"sku":"9781421427270","price":46.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421427270.jpg?v=1730501686","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/age-of-fear-9781421427270","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}