In April 1917, the United States embarked on World War I--with little history of conscription,
an army smaller than Romania's, and a political culture that saw little role for the federal …

On the afternoon of December 30, 1899, the members of the New York Stock Exchange
assembled on the trading floor to revel in their notoriety. Amidst yuletide greenery …

The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in
four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly …

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half
witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A …

Increasingly, corporations are proactively managing environmental impacts in response to
pressures from the consumer, business‐to‐business, financial, and government …

Cinema and the Wealth of Nations explores how media principally in the form of cinema was
used during the interwar years by elite institutions to establish and sustain forms of liberal …

In Civic Gifts, Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is
the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political …

In this paper, we argue that the welfare state is an outcome of modern mass (total) warfare.
The total war economy requires the participation of all citizens, erasing the differences …

" En agosto de 2008, el gobierno británico publicó su primer" Registro Nacional de
Riesgos", que contenía una" evaluación de los riesgos de las emergencias civiles a las que …

When the United States entered World War II, it took more than industrial might to transform
its tiny army—smaller than even Portugal's—into an overseas fighting force of more than …