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035 _a(DE-B1597)547198
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBristow, Nancy K.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMaking Men Moral :
_bSocial Engineering During the Great War /
_cNancy K. Bristow.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[1996]
264 4 _c©1996
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _atext file
_bPDF
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490 0 _aThe American Social Experience ;
_v8
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tCHAPTER ONE. "An Invisible Armor": The Progressive Social Vision and World War One --
_tCHAPTER TWO. "Full-Orbed Moral Manhood": Cultural Nationalism and the Creation of New Men and Women --
_tCHAPTER THREE. Reformers between Two Worlds: The Battle against Tradition and Working-Class Modernism --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Building a National Community: The Complexities of Gender --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Repression and Resistance: African Americans and the Progressives' National Community --
_tCHAPTER SIX. The End of the Crusade: Demobilization and the Legacy of the CTCA --
_tEpilogue --
_tAppendixes --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aOn May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German shot and shells we will try to live on in the hope of meeting them again in the blessed Country of happy reunions. But, Mr. President, if the hell-holes that infest their training camps should trip up their unwary feet and they be returned to us besotted degenerate wrecks of their former selves cursed with that hell-born craving for alcohol, we can have no such hope. Anxious about the United States' pending entry into the Great War, fearful that their sons would be polluted by the scourges of prostitution, venereal disease, illicit sex, and drink that ran rampant in the training camps, countless Americans sent such missives to their government officials. In response to this deluge, President Wilson created the Commission on Training Camp Activities to ensure the purity of the camp environment. Training camps would henceforth mold not only soldiers, but model citizens who, after the war, would return to their communities, spreading white, urban, middle-class values throughout the country. What began as a federal program designed to eliminate sexually transmitted diseases soon mushroomed into a powerful social force intent on replacing America's many cultures with a single, homogenous one. Though committed to the positive methods of education and recreation, the reformers did not hesitate to employ repression when necessary. Those not conforming to the prescribed vision of masculinity often faced exclusion from the reformers' idealized society, or sometimes even imprisonment. Social engineering ruled the day. Combining social, cultural, and military history and illustrating the deep divisions among reformers themselves, Nancy K. Bristow, with the aid of dozens of evocative photographs, here brings to life a pivotal era in the history of the U.S., revealing the complex relationship between the nation's competing cultures, progressive reform efforts, and the Great War.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)
650 0 _aMilitary bases
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSocial reformers
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aSoldiers
_zUnited States
_xConduct of life.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Social History.
_2bisacsh
653 _aBristow.
653 _aCombining.
653 _aGreat.
653 _aNancy.
653 _aUS.
653 _aWar.
653 _aamong.
653 _abetween.
653 _abrings.
653 _acompeting.
653 _acomplex.
653 _acultural.
653 _acultures.
653 _adeep.
653 _adivisions.
653 _adozens.
653 _aefforts.
653 _aevocative.
653 _ahere.
653 _ahistory.
653 _aillustrating.
653 _alife.
653 _amilitary.
653 _anations.
653 _aphotographs.
653 _apivotal.
653 _aprogressive.
653 _areform.
653 _areformers.
653 _arelationship.
653 _arevealing.
653 _asocial.
653 _athemselves.
653 _awith.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814725009.001.0001
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814725009
856 4 2 _3Cover
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