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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781107031937
• ISBN-10: 1107031931
• Artikelnr.: 37294751

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.