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German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

AvAlison Clark Efford

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This study of Civil War-era politics explores how German immigrants influenced the rise and fall of white commitment to African-American rights. Intertwining developments in Europe and North America, Alison Clark Efford describes how the presence of naturalized citizens affected the status of former slaves and identifies 1870 as a crucial turning point. That year, the Franco-Prussian War prompted German immigrants to re-evaluate the liberal nationalism underpinning African-American suffrage. Throughout the period, the newcomers' approach to race, ethnicity, gender and political economy shaped American citizenship law.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-12-18
Mått153 x 230 x 16 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePublications of the German Historical Institute
Antal sidor278
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107476080

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Introduction: naturalized citizens, transnational perspectives, and the arc of reconstruction; 1. The German language of American citizenship; 2. The 'freedom-loving German', 1854–60; 3. Black suffrage as a German cause in Missouri, 1865; 4. Principal rising, 1865–9; 5. Wendepunkt: the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1; 6. The Liberal Republican transition, 1870–2; 7. Class, culture, and the decline of reconstruction, 1870–6; Epilogue: the Great Strike of 1877; Appendix: voting tables; Bibliography.

'A brilliant study in every respect, full of local texture, of importance for the whole story of a key period in US history, and of powerfully rendered transnational crosscurrents. Efford's deep research establishes the dramatic connection of German Americans to freedom struggles in the 1850s and 1860s and to the retreat from such commitments in the waning of Reconstruction, convincingly connecting both with the changing history of the land that immigrants left.' David Roediger, University of Illinois, and co-author of The Production of Difference (2012)