| Degrees of Allegiance: Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri's German-American Community during World War I Contributor(s): DeWitt, Petra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821420038 ISBN-13: 9780821420034 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War I - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 940.403 |
| LCCN: 2011053208 |
| Series: Law, Society and Politics in the Midwest |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 284 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |