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by María Inés Tato (Volume Editor)
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.
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.
Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars is now available in paperback for individual customers.
Author Biography
María Inés Tato. Ph.D. (2003), University of Buenos Aires, is Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). Among other books, she coedited The Global First World War. African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberian Mediators (Routledge, 2021).
