{"product_id":"degrees-of-allegiance-9780821420034","title":"Degrees of Allegiance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDegrees 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A very well-researched piece.… The strengths of the book are that it examines the rural and the urban experiences of German-Americans and that it suggests the need for some serious revisions of the scholarly emphasis on the severity of the reaction to German-American citizens during the period.”\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDegrees of Allegiance\u003c\/i\u003e is a detailed, sophisticated, and convincing account of how wartime expectations pressured Missouri Germans to relinquish the distinctive parts of their culture and the extent to which they actually did so.” * Missouri Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“The author makes a convincing case … and departs from the ‘victimization’ mode so characteristic of so much ethnic history today, and treats the German-American experience with considerable nuance.… The prime audience will of course be people interested in German-American history and Missouri politics of this era, but this is not an insider’s account and is written to be accessible also to general readers.” * Texas A \u0026amp; M University *","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405995811159,"sku":"9780821420034","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821420034.jpg?v=1730494176","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/degrees-of-allegiance-9780821420034","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}