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Book SynopsisHow did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables Notes on Contributors Immigrants and World Wars in South America An Introduction María Inés Tato 1 Fighting on the Home Front Mobilizing European Citizens for the First World War in Latin America Stefan Rinke 2 The French in Buenos Aires during the First World War Hernán M. Díaz 3 The Mobilization of the European Communities in Chile during the First World War Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz 4 The Austro-Hungarian Community in Chile during the First World War Milagros Martínez-Flener 5 The Armenian Diaspora in Argentina Facing the First World War and the Postwar Genocide, Trauma, and Reconstruction Juan Pablo Artinian 6 A Return of Military Migration: The Scots of the British Volunteers of Latin America, 1914–1918 Norman Fraser Brown 7 Europeans in Latin America and the Memory of the Great War María Inés Tato 8 The German Speakers of Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s Germán C. Friedmann 9 Disputes over Italianness Italian Immigration in Argentina in the Face of Fascism Marcelo Huernos 10 Final Reflections María Inés Tato Bibliography Index
