Transatlantic battles : : European immigrant communities in South America and the World Wars / / edited by María Inés Tato.

• Superior document: Critical Latin America
• TeilnehmendeR: Tato, María Inés,; Artinian, Juan Pablo.
• Place / Publishing House: ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Latin America.
• Physical Description: 1 recurso en línea (xi, 215 p.).

"How 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Immigrants and World Wars in South America An Introduction -- Chapter 1 Fighting on the Home Front Mobilizing European Citizens for the First World War in Latin America -- Chapter 2 The French in Buenos Aires during the First World War -- Chapter 3 The Mobilization of the European Communities in Chile during the First World War -- Chapter 4 The Austro-Hungarian Community in Chile during the First World War -- Chapter 5 The Armenian Diaspora in Argentina Facing the First World War and the Postwar Genocide, Trauma, and Reconstruction / Juan Pablo Artinian -- Chapter 6 A Return of Military Migration: The Scots of the British Volunteers of Latin America, 1914-1918 -- Chapter 7 Europeans in Latin America and the Memory of the Great War -- Chapter 8 The German Speakers of Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s -- Chapter 9 Disputes over Italianness Italian Immigration in Argentina in the Face of Fascism -- Chapter 10 Final Reflections -- Bibliography -- Index.