Date of Award
Summer 8-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
H. Robert Baker
Second Advisor
Joe Perry
Third Advisor
Larry Youngs
Abstract
This thesis analyzes the culture of coercive voluntarism in Georgia during the First World War using studies of legislation and vigilance, the press, and the Georgia Council of Defense. Each of the themes studied demonstrates how organizations attempted to coerce support of the US war effort in Georgia. The study focuses on Georgia as a single state rather than simply as part of the South, as most other studies have done. The purpose is to challenge studies that have emphasized resistance only, which presents an incomplete picture of Georgia’s domestic scene during the war. In fact, many elements within Georgia—at the state, local, and citizen level—actively supported the war, often with the same level of intention, if not the same results, as did other areas of the country. Georgia attempted to comply with federal imperatives while preserving its rights as a state.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/4299386
Recommended Citation
Warhop, Bill, "Patriotism And Dissent: Coercive Voluntarism In Wartime Georgia, 1917?1919." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2013.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/4299386