Love And Death In The Great War

Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why they fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response. The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention started from the moment President Woodrow Wilson secured a war declaration in April 1917. Yet amid those shifting justifications was a more durable and resonant one: Americans would fight for home and family. This book merges the stories of several American families with analysis of wartime popular culture. It argues that family, in lived experience and as symbolic motivator, gave the war meaning, recovering the conflict's personal dimensions. But that narrative had undergone transformative challenges by war's end.

• | Author: Andrew J. Huebner
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 409 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0190853921
• | ISBN-13: 9780190853921