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Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946

By: Antonio S. Thompson

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Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946

By: Antonio S. Thompson

During World War II, Axis prisoners of war received arguably better treatment in the U.S. than anywhere else. Bound by the Geneva Convention but also hoping for reciprocal treatment of American POWs, the U.S. sought to humanely house and employ 425,000 Axis prisoners, many in rural communities in the South. This is the first book-length examination of Tennessee's role in the POW program, and how the influx of prisoners affected communities. Towns like Tullahoma transformed into military metropolises. Memphis received millions in defense spending. Paris had a secret barrage balloon base. The wooded Crossville camp housed German and Italian officers. Prisoners worked tobacco, lumber and cotton across the state. Some threatened escape or worse. When the program ended, more than 25,000 POWs lived and worked in Tennessee.

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McFarland

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1476681678

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9781476681672

Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky

Behind Barbed Wire in the Bluegrass State, 1941-1946

By: Antonio S. Thompson

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Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky

Behind Barbed Wire in the Bluegrass State, 1941-1946

By: Antonio S. Thompson

During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor. An influx of Axis prisoners of war made up the shortfall. Nearly 10,000 German and Italian POWs were housed in camps at Campbell, Breckinridge, Knox and other locations across the state. Under the Geneva Convention, they worked for their captors and helped save Kentucky's crops, while enjoying relative comfort as prisoners--playing sports, performing musicals and taking college classes. Yet, friction between Nazi and anti-Nazi inmates threatened the success of the program. This book chronicles the POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied victory.

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McFarland

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1476681686

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9781476681689

Contesting the Global Development of Sustainable and Inclusive Education

Education Reform and the Challenges of Neoliberal Globalization

By: Antonio Teodoro

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Contesting the Global Development of Sustainable and Inclusive Education

Education Reform and the Challenges of Neoliberal Globalization

By: Antonio Teodoro

Documenting the outcomes from three decades of transnational research conducted under the leadership of António Teodoro, this volume offers a robust scaffolding of the social and political context in which global education is being challenged by the contradictions of neoliberalism, globalization, deregulation, governance, and democracy. Contesting the Global Development of Sustainable and Inclusive Education presents outcomes from transnational studies conducted in response to global policies advocating the development of sustainable and inclusive education for all. Chapters map the impacts of globalization on education policy and consider how international organizations are shaping national education reforms. Focusing on questions of social justice, the volume asks how the neoliberal strategies enacted by national governments are affecting the work of teachers as well as curriculum, teacher training, and assessment. Finally, the text asks whether there are alternatives to financially-driven, competition-based reforms that might better position education as an action project for social justice. This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students, scholars, researchers and policymakers in the fields of global education, comparative education, and education policy.

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Routledge

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1000064298

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9781000064292

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946

By: Antonio S. Thompson

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Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946

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Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky

Axis Prisoners of War in Kentucky

Contesting the Global Development of Sustainable and Inclusive Education

Contesting the Global Development of Sustainable and Inclusive Education

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee

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