Enemies Within : Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (438 pages)
- Heritage Series .
- Heritage Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction - Italians and Wartime Internment: Comparative Perspectives on Public Policy, Historical Memory, and Daily Life -- Part One - Italian Canadians, Fascism, and Internment: Black Shirts or Sheep? -- 1 A Tangled Knot: Prelude to 10 June 1940 -- 2 Exporting Fascism to Canada: Toronto's Little Italy -- 3 The Internment of Italian Canadians -- 4 'Uneasy Neighbours': Internment and Hamilton's Italians -- Part Two - Other Canadian Internees: Drawing Distinctions -- 5 A War on Ethnicity? The RCMP and Internment -- 6 The Curious Case of Female Internees -- 7 The 'Camp Boys': Interned Refugees from Nazism -- 8 Political Prisoners: The Communist Internees -- Part Three - Italians Interned Abroad: Three Case Studies -- 9 The Internment of Italians in Australia -- 10 The Internment of Italians in Britain -- 11 When Italian Americans Were 'Enemy Aliens' -- Part Four - Memory and Redress: The Uses of the Past -- 12 Actor or Victim? Mario Duliani and His Internment Narrative -- 13 Images of Internment -- 14 The Politics of Redress: The Contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian Campaign -- 15 Redress, Collective Memory, and the Politics of History -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Enemies Withinis 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.
9781442674462
World War, 1939-1945-Prisoners and prisons, Canadian. Prisoners of war-Canada. Prisoners of war-Italy. Italians-Canada-History. Internment camps-Canada.