Format:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821444191
Series Statement:
Series on Law, Society, and Politics in the Midwest Ser.
Content:
Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way that they were affected by national war effort guidelines. Spared from widespread hate crimes, German-Americans in Missouri did not have the same bleak experiences as other German-Americans in the Midwest or across America. But they were still subject to regular charges of disloyalty, sometimes because of conflicts within the German-American community itself. Degrees of Allegiance updates traditional thinking about the German-American experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war's impact on German-American culture.
Content:
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: American yet German -- Chapter 2: Divided Opinions and Growing Suspicions -- Chapter 3: "No Time for Slackers" -- Chapter 4: From the "Most American City" to Seeing German Ghosts Everywhere -- Chapter 5: Resisting Interference in Daily Life -- Chapter 6: Superpatriotism in Action -- Conclusion: Becoming Americans of German Heritage on Their Own Terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821420034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821420034
Language:
English
Author information:
DeWitt, Petra 1961-
