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An Italian Voice Overseas: War and the Making of National Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1910-1920

Semelsberger, Daniel B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1335530324

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2012, Master of Arts, Miami University, History.
This is a study in the growth of national identity among the Italian emigrants residing in Cleveland, Ohio between 1910 and 1920. It takes its cue from recent scholarship on the ways in which the project of Italian nationalism, via the notion of Greater Italy, responded to the mass Italian migration of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Through a close reading of the Italian-language newspaper La Voce del Popolo, published in Cleveland by Fernando and Olindo Melaragno, this thesis investigates the idea that there were efforts to foster a sense of nation-based Italianess in the so-called “emigrant colonies” of Greater Italy. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Italy’s involvement in war—specifically the Italo-Turkish War and the First World War—provided a catalyst for the efforts of the editorial staff of La Voce del Popolo to develop a unified sense of Italianess among its readers.
Wietse de Boer (Advisor)
Stephen Norris (Committee Member)
Sante Matteo (Committee Member)
92 p.
History; Modern History
national identity; nationhood; nationalism; Italian emigration; migration; diaspora; Greater Italy; Italo-Turkish War; World War I; Cleveland, Ohio; newspapers; La Voce del Popolo; Melaragno

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  • Semelsberger, D. B. (2012). An Italian Voice Overseas: War and the Making of National Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1910-1920 [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1335530324

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Semelsberger, Daniel. An Italian Voice Overseas: War and the Making of National Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1910-1920. 2012. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1335530324.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Semelsberger, Daniel. "An Italian Voice Overseas: War and the Making of National Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1910-1920." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1335530324

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