Alison Clark Efford

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

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Produktbeschreibung

This study reframes Civil War-era history, arguing that the Franco-Prussian War contributed to a dramatic pivot in Northern commitment to African-American rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781107476080
• ISBN-10: 1107476089
• Artikelnr.: 41525741

Autorenporträt

Alison Clark Efford is Assistant Professor of History at Marquette University. Her 2008 doctoral dissertation won the Friends of the German Historical Institute's Fritz Stern Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

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.