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Good Americans : Italian and Jewish immigrants during the First World War /

Good Americans' examines the participation of Italian and Jewish Americans, both on the home front and overseas, in World War I. Christoper M. Sterba argues that immigrant communities played a significant role in American public life for the first time during this conflict.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sterba, Christopher M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Melting Pot Goes to War
  • 1. Heyday of the New Immigrant Enclave
  • I. Your Country Needs You
  • 2. "Get in Out of the Draft": Raising Volunteers and the Italian Response in New Haven
  • 3. "Not as a Jew but as a Citizen": The Draft and New York Jewry
  • II. Training the New Immigrant Soldier
  • 4. Being Italian in the Yankee Division
  • 5. Being Jewish in the National Army
  • III. Home Front
  • 6. "More Than Ever, We Feel Proud to Be Italians"
  • 7. "New York Jewry Must Do Its Duty"
  • 8. "They Were Good Americans": Survival and Victory on the Western Front
  • Epilogue: A New Voice in Politics.