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Patriotic murder : a World War I hate crime for Uncle Sam / Peter Stehman.
Van Pelt Library F549.C725 S74 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stehman, Peter, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prager, Robert, 1888-1918.
- Prager, Robert.
- Germans--Illinois--Collinsville.
- Germans.
- Lynching--Illinois--Collinsville.
- Lynching.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Collinsville (Ill.)--History.
- Collinsville (Ill.).
- Coal mines and mining--Illinois--Collinsville.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--United States.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Social aspects.
- Illinois--Collinsville.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 277 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Peter Stehman resurrects the details of a sinister World War I hate crime perpetrated on American soil against a German immigrant. During a time when America had been whipped into an intolerant patriotic frenzy by government propaganda and hate mongering, this story illuminates a dark past that still bleeds into today"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- It's plain murder, but what can you do?
- A small town, a great war
- United we stand
- You are either for us or against us
- A little tar might help
- I am heart and soul for the good old USA
- I want to tell and get it off my mind
- A farcical patriotic orgy
- It seems a nightmare.
- Notes:
- Place of publication from publisher's website.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781612349848
- 1612349846
- OCLC:
- 1031905676
- Publisher Number:
- 40028478406
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