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Book Review

Canada and the United States

John C. Hennen. The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916–1925. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 1996. Pp. xv, 217. $32.95.

John C. Hennen locates his local study within a national context. "Far from being isolated," Hennen argues, West Virginian elites contributed to the ideological construction and dissemination of industrial Americanism between 1916 and 1925. Hennen's purpose is to deconstruct how "adherents to the hierarchical elements of industrial capitalism attempted . . . with great success, to implant their ideology into the consciousness" of West Virginia (p. 151). 1

The book moves chronologically through eight chapters, beginning with the mobilization of public opinion during World War I and ending with the triumphant "sanctification of Industrialism Americanism" by 1923–1924 (p. 146). Hennen expands the term "Americanization" from its typical association with English-only initiatives targeted at making immigrants into Anglo-Americans to include campaigns aimed at making native-born workers into obedient laborers and citizens. The book, a winner of the 1995 Appalachian Studies Award, explores how West Virginian coal owners, government officials, and educators adapted techniques for the "engineering of consent," honed by the Committee on Public Information in World War I, to make "loyalty to the state and nation interchangeable with obedience to one's employer" during the postwar period (p. 2, 4). . . .

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