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Entangling Alliances : Foreign War Brides and American Soldiers in the Twentieth Century /

"Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the "allied" war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persist...

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Autor principal: Zeiger, Susan, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cupid in the AEF: U.S. soldiers and women abroad in World War I
  • The worst kind of women: foreign war brides in 1920s America
  • GIs and girls around the globe: the geopolitics of sex and marriage in World War II
  • Good mothers: GI brides after World War II
  • Interracialism, pluralism, and civil rights: war bride marriage in the 1940s and 1950s
  • The demise of the war bride: Korea, Vietnam, and beyond.