Reviews
This 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.
This strong, clear, and well-written book provides a useful new lens with which to view World War I. General readers, as well as scholars of literature, history, and culture, will find much to recommend Age of Fear.
Informed by hardcore historical research throughout, this insightful and well-written book abounds with keen observations. Age of Fear makes an original and much-needed contribution.
A well-researched and well-grounded addition to the scholarship of World War I. Zachary Smith offers a fresh perspective by chronologically tracing the intense anti-German hysteria of the WWI home front.
Based on a rich array of sources, Age of Fear offers a fresh take on a troubling chapter of our past. A thoughtful analysis of American political culture with lessons for our own fearful times, it is a necessary and timely book.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Identity, Decline, and Preparedness, 1914-1917
Chapter 2: The Emergence of the Internal Enemy Other, 1914-1917
Chapter 3: The War on the Internal Enemy Other
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Identity, Decline, and Preparedness, 1914-1917
Chapter 2: The Emergence of the Internal Enemy Other, 1914-1917
Chapter 3: The War on the Internal Enemy Other, 1917-1918
Chapter 4: Resisting Regressive Militarism, 1917-1918
Chapter 5: Toward the Democratic Millennium, 1914-1918
Epilogue: Fear, Othering, and Identity in the Postwar
United States
Notes
Bibliography
Index