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Recording the war effort: immigrant communities in Latin America and the memory of the Great War

Authors:	María Inés Tato

Institution:	1. Grupo de Estudios Históricos sobre la Guerra - Instituto Ravignani, CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires , Buenos Aires, Argentina minestato@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8918-2976

Abstract:	ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse the initiatives undertaken by some immigrant communities residing in Latin America to record their mobilisation around the First World War. After the armistice, European communities in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and other countries gathered detailed information about their activities during the conflict, published as profusely illustrated books of remembrance, offered to their governments as proof of their loyalty. The article intends to establish the peculiar nature of these publications as records of the war effort, and analyse the agents and processes of their elaboration, and their role as commemorative but also as archival documents.

Keywords:	First World War Latin America immigrant communities books of remembrance war mobilisation