The German-speaking Forty-eighters
Author | : Charles J. Wallman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : German Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Charles J. Wallman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : German Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Carl Wittke |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 151280875X |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Charles J. Wallman |
Publisher | : Max Kade Institute |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Back in print again, this is the story of the "Forty-Eighters," political refugees who fled German-speaking countries in the aftermath of the failed revolutions of 1848. Among their numbers were Carl Schurz, later to become a U.S. senator and advisor to presidents Lincoln and Hayes, and his wife Margarethe Schurz, who founded the kindergarten movement in the United States. Many Forty-Eighters settled in and enormously influenced the growth of Watertown, Wisconsin, which was at one time the second largest city in the state. By consulting source materials in English and German, Charles Wallman has skillfully unraveled the threads that tie the Forty-Eighters and their descendents to the history of Watertown. He chronicles not only the Forty-Eighters who subsequently became prominent in the German-American community of the United States but also those who never moved again and helped make their new hometown a thriving site of cultural and intellectual activity in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Mischa Honeck |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820338230 |
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Widely remembered as a time of heated debate over the westward expansion of slavery, the 1850s in the United States was also a period of mass immigration. As the sectional conflict escalated, discontented Europeans came in record numbers, further dividing the young republic over issues of race, nationality, and citizenship. The arrival of German-speaking “Forty-Eighters,” refugees of the failed European revolutions of 1848–49, fueled apprehensions about the nation's future. Reaching America did not end the foreign revolutionaries' pursuit of freedom; it merely transplanted it. In We Are the Revolutionists, Mischa Honeck offers a fresh appraisal of these exiled democrats by probing their relationship to another group of beleaguered agitators: America's abolitionists. Honeck details how individuals from both camps joined forces in the long, dangerous battle to overthrow slavery. In Texas and in cities like Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and Boston this cooperation helped them find new sources of belonging in an Atlantic world unsettled by massive migration and revolutionary unrest. Employing previously untapped sources to write the experience of radical German émigrés into the abolitionist struggle, Honeck elucidates how these interethnic encounters affected conversations over slavery and emancipation in the United States and abroad. Forty-Eighters and abolitionists, Honeck argues, made creative use not only of their partnerships but also of their disagreements to redefine notions of freedom, equality, and humanity in a transatlantic age of racial construction and nation making.
Author | : La Vern J. Rippley |
Publisher | : Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780805784053 |
Represents the German-American experience in the United States. Provides a German-American Chronology section to assist with orientation in historical time. Includes some of the key events in the history of Germany.
Author | : Adolf Eduard Zucker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : German Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Walter D. Kamphoefner |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876593 |
German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Author | : Jacob Mueller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
After settling in Cleveland, Mueller (1822-1905) was a newspaper editor and publisher, antislavery advocate, and civic leader who served as Lt. Governor of Ohio and U.S. Consul to Frankfurt.
Author | : Merrill, Ellen C. |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2014-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1455604844 |
During the antebellum period, New Orleans was the largest German colony below the Mason-Dixon line. Later settlements moved upriver between New Orleans and Donaldsonville, near Lecompte, and in North Louisiana near Minden. Germans of Louisiana is the first unified published study of the influence the German people made on the state of Louisiana and its inhabitants. Beginning with the French and Spanish colonial periods and working through the post-Civil War period, this book covers the heritage those German settlers left behind.