Alison Clark Efford

German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316022740
• Artikelnr.: 40807844

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.