LEADER 04071nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910967772203321 005 20250707000838.0 010 $a1-299-05204-5 010 $a1-60344-329-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081217 035 $a(OCoLC)50668580 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10455991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102533 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11120098 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102533 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10049287 035 $a(PQKB)11387438 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037916 035 $a(BIP)46430187 035 $a(BIP)26511940 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081217 100 $a20141121d2009|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series $eAmericans All! : Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I 210 $aCollege Station, TX, USA$cTexas A&M University Press$d20090901 210 $cTexas A&M University Press 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 0 $aTexas A & M University military history series Americans all! 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-60344-132-8 330 $aDuring 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's research 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 " 606 $aHISTORY$2bisac 606 $aMilitary / General$2bisac 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zUnited States 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States 606 $aSociology, Military$zUnited States 606 $aMilitary & Naval Science$2HILCC 606 $aLaw, Politics & Government$2HILCC 606 $aMilitary Administration$2HILCC 615 7$aHISTORY 615 7$aMilitary / General 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aImmigrants 615 0$aSociology, Military 615 7$aMilitary & Naval Science 615 7$aLaw, Politics & Government 615 7$aMilitary Administration 676 $a306.2/7/097309041 700 $aFord$b Nancy Gentile$0913459 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967772203321 996 $aWilliams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series$94403475 997 $aUNINA