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Susan Zeiger - Entangling Alliances - 9780814797174 - V9780814797174
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Entangling Alliances

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Description for Entangling Alliances Hardback. An history of war brides in 20th-century American history. It uses relationships between American male soldiers and foreign women as a lens to view larger issues of sexuality, race, and gender in United States foreign relations. It traces how war and post-war anxieties about power and national identity have long been projected onto war brides. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBG; HBLW3; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.

Throughout the twentieth century, American male soldiers returned home from wars with foreign-born wives in tow, often from allied but at times from enemy nations, resulting in a new, official category of immigrant: the “allied” war bride. These brides began to appear en masse after World War I, peaked after World War II, and persisted through the Korean and Vietnam Wars. GIs also met and married former “enemy” women under conditions of postwar occupation, although at times the US government banned such unions.
In this comprehensive, complex history of war brides in 20th-century American history, Susan Zeiger uses relationships ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814797174
SKU
V9780814797174
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About Susan Zeiger
Susan Zeiger is author of In Uncle Sam’s Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919. She works for Primary Source, an education non-profit in the Boston area.

Reviews for Entangling Alliances
When American military forces have fought abroad, intercultural romances have been 'a minefield of political, racial and moral sensitivities," as Susan Zeiger shows in her excellent study of the foreign wartime brides of American soldiers in the twentieth century . . . She anchors her work in the study of gender, specifically the ways that women and women's sexuality have ... Read more

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