TY  - GEN
T1  - Americans all! : foreign-born soldiers in World War I
T2  - Texas A & M University military history series ;
A1  - Ford, Nancy Gentile, 1954-
LA  - English
PP  - College Station
PB  - Texas A & M University Press
YR  - 2001
ED  - 1st ed.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm50668580
AB  - During the First World War, nearly half a million immigrant draftees from forty-six different nations served in the U.S. Army. This surge of Old World soldiers challenged the American military's cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions and required military leaders to reconsider their training methods for the foreign-born troops. How did the U.S. War Department integrate this diverse group into a united fighting force?The war department drew on the experiences of progressive social welfare reformers, who worked with immigrants in urban settlement houses, and they listened to industrial efficiency experts, who connected combat performance to morale and personnel management. Perhaps most significantly, the military enlisted the help of ethnic community leaders, who assisted in training, socializing, and Americanizing immigrant troops and who pressured the military to recognize and meet the important cultural and religious needs of the ethnic soldiers. These community leaders negotiated the Americanization process by promoting patriotism and loyalty to the United States while retaining key ethnic cultural traditions.Offering an exciting look at an unexplored area of military history, Americans All! Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I constitutes a work of special interest to scholars in the fields of military history, sociology, and ethnic studies. Ford'sresearch illuminates what it meant for the U.S. military to reexamine early twentieth-century nativism; instead of forcing soldiers into a melting pot, war department policies created an atmosphere that made both American and ethnic pride acceptable.During the war, a German officer commented on the ethnic diversity of the American army and noted, with some amazement, that these "semi-Americans" considered themselves to be "true-born sons of their adopted country." The officer was wrong on one count. The immigrant soldiers were not "semi-Americans"; they were "Americans all!"
OP  - 194
CN  - UB417 .F67 2001eb
SN  - 1585449091
SN  - 9781585449095
SN  - 9781603443296
SN  - 1603443290
SN  - 9781585441181
SN  - 158544118X
SN  - 9781603441322
SN  - 1603441328
KW  - United States. : Army : Minorities : History : 20th century.
KW  - United States. : Army : History : World War, 1914-1918.
KW  - États-Unis. : Army : Minorités : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - United States. : Army
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : United States.
KW  - Immigrants : United States : History : 20th century.
KW  - Sociology, Military : United States.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : États-Unis.
KW  - Sociologie militaire : États-Unis.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Armed Forces : Minorities
KW  - Sociology, Military
KW  - United States
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -