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On the Other Shore explores the social history of Italian
communities in South America and the transnational networks in
which they were situated during and after World War I. From 1915 to
1921 Italy's conflict against Austria-Hungary and its aftermath
shook Italian immigrants and their children in the metropolitan
areas of Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Sao Paulo. The war led
portions of these communities to mobilize resources-patriotic
support, young men who could enlist in the Italian army, goods like
wool from Argentina and limes from Brazil, and lots of money-to
support Italy in the face of "total war." Yet other portions of
these communities simultaneously organized a strident movement
against the war, inspired especially by anarchism and revolutionary
socialism. Both of these factions sought to extend their influence
and ambitions into the immediate postwar period. On the Other Shore
demonstrates patterns of social cohesion and division within the
Italian communities of South America; reconstructs varying
transatlantic and inter-American networks of interaction, exchange,
and mobility in an "Italian Atlantic"; interrogates how authorities
in Italy viewed their South American "colonies"; and uncovers ways
that Italians in Latin America balanced and blended relationships
and loyalties to their countries of residence and origin. On the
Other Shore's position at the intersection of Latin American
history, Atlantic history, and the histories of World War I and
Italian immigration thereby engages with and informs each of these
subject areas in distinctive ways.
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