Searching for subversives : the story of Italian internment in wartime America

Searching for subversives : the story of Italian internment in wartime America /

Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in...

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Main Author: Chopas, Mary Elizabeth Basile (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subjects:
1933-1945
Italian Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942.
Immigrants > Government policy > United States.
Italians > Government policy > United States.
Italians > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > History > 1933-1945.
Internment camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Concentration camps > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Italian Americans.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Internment camps
Immigrants > Government policy
Italian Americans
Italians > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
History
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
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Summary:Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in-depth legal analysis illuminates a process not widely understood.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469634357
146963435X
9781469634333
1469634333
9781469634364
1469634368

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