{"id":7043063,"date":"2026-08-21T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/orchestrating-power-the-american-associational-state-in-the-first-world-war-by-nathan-k-finney\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:23:43","slug":"orchestrating-power-the-american-associational-state-in-the-first-world-war-by-nathan-k-finney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7043063","title":{"rendered":"Orchestrating Power The American Associational State in the First World War by Nathan K. Finney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><i data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Orchestrating Power<\/i>\u00a0explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. Nathan K. Finney focuses on North Carolina\u2019s Council of Defense to describe how the council was mediated by specific people at various levels of society and the results of their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Positioned between the national government and the people of North Carolina, the Council of Defense mediated the activities of public, private, and individual efforts in support of mobilization activities. Because of this intermediary positioning, the council was instrumental in expanding state capacity and capability for military and resource mobilization and supporting an increase in the nation\u2019s ability to mobilize for the war.<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s intermediary role, however, also allowed those managing the state mobilization to prevent any significant challenge to the state\u2019s social and political structures, despite the dynamic changes wrought by the need to mobilize the nation for war. As a result,\u00a0<i>Orchestrating Power<\/i>\u00a0helps us understand the crucial decisions and developments of early twentieth-century America, showing why the country mobilized for war in the specific ways that it did.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchestrating Power\u00a0explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. Nathan K. Finney focuses on North Carolina\u2019s Council of Defense to describe how the council was mediated by specific people at various levels of society and the results of their decisions. 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