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Title Enemies within : Italian and other internees in Canada and abroad / edited by Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin, and Angelo Principe
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 429 pages) : illustrations
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents Comparative perspectives on public policy, historical memory, and daily life / Franca Iacovetta and Roberto Perin -- A tangled knot: prelude to 10 June 1940 / Angelo Principe -- Exporting fascism to Canada: Toronto's little Italy / Luigi G. Pennacchio -- The internment of Italian Canadians / Luigi Bruti Liberati -- 'Uneasy neighbours': internment and Hamilton's Italians / Enrico Carlson Cumbo -- A war on ethnicity? The RCMP and internment / Reg Whitaker and Gregory S. Kealey -- The curious case of female internees / Michelle McBride -- The 'camp boys': interned refugees from nazism / Paula J. Draper -- Political prisoners: the communist internees / Ian Radforth -- The internment of Italians in Australia / R.J.B. Bosworth -- The internment of Italians in Britain / Lucio Sponza -- When Italian Americans were 'enemy aliens' / Rose D. Scherini -- Actor or victim? Mario Duliani and his internment narrative / Roberto Perin -- Images of internment / Gabriele Scardellato -- The politics of redress: the contemporary Ukranian-Canadian campaign / Frances Swyripa -- Redress, collective memory, and the politics of history / Franca Iacovetta and Robert Ventresca
Summary In the recent campaign led by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to gain redress for compatriots interned during the Second World War, leaders claimed that the Canadian state had waged a 'war against ethnicity.' Their version of history, argue the editors, drew on selective evidence and glossed over the fascist past of some Italian Canadians. The editors have assembled scholars who, while having diverse views, seek to stimulate informed debate. Enemies Within is the first study of its kind to examine not only the formulation and uneven implementation of internment policy, but the social and gender history of internment. It brings together national and international perspectives. The book offers differing interpretations of Italian internment in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It invites comparisons between Italian Canadians and Canada's other internees, including Communists, German Canadians, Ukrainian Canadians and Jewish refugees. Contemporary redress campaigns are examined. Masculinity, female internees, Communist women's release politics, and memory culture are some of the little-studied subjects that also receive attention. This book contains photographs never before seen. A general introduction and four section introductions provide valuable background to the issues being discussed
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Canadian
Prisoners of war -- Canada
Prisoners of war -- Italy
Italians -- Canada -- History
Internment camps -- Canada.
World War, 1939-1945.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Internment camps
Italians
Prisoners of war
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Interneringskampen.
Italianen.
Canada
Italy
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-
Perin, Roberto
Principe, Angelo
LC no. 00363260
ISBN 9781442674462
1442674466
1282037080
9781282037083
9786612037085
6612037083