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Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene, 2001

Description: How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917–18 forged the U.S. Army of the twentieth century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history―the G.I. Bill.Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. The experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers, Keene finally argues, in ways she asks us to ponder. She finds that the country and the conscripts―in their view―entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the twentieth century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late nineteenth century.Shipped by USPS Media Mail.

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Number of Pages: 312 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Doughboys, the Great War and the Remaking of America

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Subject: United States / 20th Century, Military / United States, United States / General

Publication Year: 2001

Item Height: 1 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 22.4 Oz

Author: Jennifer D. Keene

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: History

Item Width: 6 in

Series: War/Society/Culture Ser.

Format: Hardcover

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