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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.