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The home front and war in the twentieth century : the American experience in comparative perspective : proceedings of the Tenth Military History Symposium, 20-22 October 1982 / edited by James Titus.

Author: Military History Symposium (U.S.) (10th : 1982 : United States Air Force Academy)

Imprint:[Colorado Springs, Colo.] : United States Air Force Academy and Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF ; Washington, D.C. : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1984.

Descriptionxiv, 287 p. : ports. ; 23 cm.

Note:Sponsored by: The Department of History and The Association of Graduates.

Note:In memoriam: Major Donald R. Blacklund -- Introduction / James Titus -- 25th Harmon Memorial lecture in military history: United against: American culture and society during World War II / John Morton Blum -- Session I. THE QEUST FOR NATIONAL UNITY IN THE GREAT WAR: For king and kaiser: British and German mobilization in World War I / Dennis E. Showalter -- Rallying Americans for war: 1917-1918 / David M. Kennedy -- The collapse of the central powers in World War I: the case of Austria-Hungary / Gunther E. Rothenberg -- Session II. ECONOMIC MOBILIZATION IN WORLD WAR II: Some aspects of German mobilization under the National Socialist regime / Wilhelm Deist -- Warfare and power relations in America: mobilizing the World War II economy / Paul A.C. Koistinen -- BANQUET ADDRESS : Hollywood goes to war / David H. Culbert -- SESSION III. SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOTAL WAR : Total war and social change in Great Britain and other European countries / Arthur Marwick -- American blacks in World War II: rethinking the militancy-watershed hypothesis / Harvard Sitkoff -- War is not healthy for children and other living things: reflections on the impact of total war on women / Leila J. Rupp -- SESSION IV. LIMITED WAR AND THE PROBLEM OF HEARTS AND MINDS ON THE HOME FRONT: Keeping Algeria French: the war on the home front / John E. Talbot -- A comment on the Vietnam crisis in America: Tet 1968 / Peter Braestrup -- SUMMARY: Beyond the battlefield / Edward M. Coffman.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Military history, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Titus, James.
United States Air Force Academy. Department of History.
United States Air Force Academy. Association of Graduates.