Author: Zachary Stuart Garrison
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 080933755X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers meet. German Americans who settled in the region took an antislavery stance, asserting a liberal nationalist philosophy rooted in their revolutionary experience in Europe that emphasized individual rights and freedoms. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story. Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. During the antebellum years, many liberal German Americans feared slavery would inhibit westward progress, and so they embraced the Free Soil and Free Labor movements and the new Republican Party. Most joined the Union ranks during the Civil War. After the war, in a region largely opposed to black citizenship and Radical Republican rule, German Americans were seen as dangerous outsiders. Facing a conservative resurgence, liberal German Republicans employed the same line of reasoning they had once used to justify emancipation: A united nation required the end of both federal occupation in the South and special protections for African Americans. Having played a role in securing the Union, Germans largely abandoned the freedmen and freedwomen. They adopted reconciliation in order to secure their place in the reunified nation. Garrison’s unique transnational perspective to the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and the postwar era complicates our understanding of German Americans on the middle border.
German Americans on the Middle Border
Author: Zachary Stuart Garrison
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 080933755X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers meet. German Americans who settled in the region took an antislavery stance, asserting a liberal nationalist philosophy rooted in their revolutionary experience in Europe that emphasized individual rights and freedoms. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story. Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. During the antebellum years, many liberal German Americans feared slavery would inhibit westward progress, and so they embraced the Free Soil and Free Labor movements and the new Republican Party. Most joined the Union ranks during the Civil War. After the war, in a region largely opposed to black citizenship and Radical Republican rule, German Americans were seen as dangerous outsiders. Facing a conservative resurgence, liberal German Republicans employed the same line of reasoning they had once used to justify emancipation: A united nation required the end of both federal occupation in the South and special protections for African Americans. Having played a role in securing the Union, Germans largely abandoned the freedmen and freedwomen. They adopted reconciliation in order to secure their place in the reunified nation. Garrison’s unique transnational perspective to the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and the postwar era complicates our understanding of German Americans on the middle border.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN: 080933755X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers meet. German Americans who settled in the region took an antislavery stance, asserting a liberal nationalist philosophy rooted in their revolutionary experience in Europe that emphasized individual rights and freedoms. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story. Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. During the antebellum years, many liberal German Americans feared slavery would inhibit westward progress, and so they embraced the Free Soil and Free Labor movements and the new Republican Party. Most joined the Union ranks during the Civil War. After the war, in a region largely opposed to black citizenship and Radical Republican rule, German Americans were seen as dangerous outsiders. Facing a conservative resurgence, liberal German Republicans employed the same line of reasoning they had once used to justify emancipation: A united nation required the end of both federal occupation in the South and special protections for African Americans. Having played a role in securing the Union, Germans largely abandoned the freedmen and freedwomen. They adopted reconciliation in order to secure their place in the reunified nation. Garrison’s unique transnational perspective to the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and the postwar era complicates our understanding of German Americans on the middle border.
The German-Americans
Author: La Vern J. Rippley
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN: 9780805784053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN: 9780805784053
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
German Americans on the Middle Border
Author: Zachary Stuart Garrison
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809337568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers meet. German Americans who settled in the region took an antislavery stance, asserting a liberal nationalist philosophy rooted in their revolutionary experience in Europe that emphasized individual rights and freedoms. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story. Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. During the antebellum years, many liberal German Americans feared slavery would inhibit westward progress, and so they embraced the Free Soil and Free Labor movements and the new Republican Party. Most joined the Union ranks during the Civil War. After the war, in a region largely opposed to black citizenship and Radical Republican rule, German Americans were seen as dangerous outsiders. Facing a conservative resurgence, liberal German Republicans employed the same line of reasoning they had once used to justify emancipation: A united nation required the end of both federal occupation in the South and special protections for African Americans. Having played a role in securing the Union, Germans largely abandoned the freedmen and freedwomen. They adopted reconciliation in order to secure their place in the reunified nation. Garrison’s unique transnational perspective to the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and the postwar era complicates our understanding of German Americans on the middle border.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809337568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers meet. German Americans who settled in the region took an antislavery stance, asserting a liberal nationalist philosophy rooted in their revolutionary experience in Europe that emphasized individual rights and freedoms. By contextualizing German Americans in their European past and exploring their ideological formation in failed nationalist revolutions, Zachary Stuart Garrison adds nuance and complexity to their story. Liberal German immigrants, having escaped the European aristocracy who undermined their revolution and the formation of a free nation, viewed slaveholders as a specter of European feudalism. During the antebellum years, many liberal German Americans feared slavery would inhibit westward progress, and so they embraced the Free Soil and Free Labor movements and the new Republican Party. Most joined the Union ranks during the Civil War. After the war, in a region largely opposed to black citizenship and Radical Republican rule, German Americans were seen as dangerous outsiders. Facing a conservative resurgence, liberal German Republicans employed the same line of reasoning they had once used to justify emancipation: A united nation required the end of both federal occupation in the South and special protections for African Americans. Having played a role in securing the Union, Germans largely abandoned the freedmen and freedwomen. They adopted reconciliation in order to secure their place in the reunified nation. Garrison’s unique transnational perspective to the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and the postwar era complicates our understanding of German Americans on the middle border.
Bonds of Loyalty
Author: Frederick C. Luebke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The German Americans
Author: Peg Ashbrock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590841075
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explains the reasons the German immigrants came to America and the important contribution they made to American society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781590841075
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explains the reasons the German immigrants came to America and the important contribution they made to American society.
German-Americans and the World War
Author: Carl Frederick Wittke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Germans in America
Author: Virginia B. Kunz
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822510093
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Discusses the history and contributions of the Germans in America from colonial times to the present, noting prominent German Americans throughout American history.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822510093
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Discusses the history and contributions of the Germans in America from colonial times to the present, noting prominent German Americans throughout American history.
The German Americans
Author: Anne Galicich
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791002650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Germans, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791002650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Germans, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
German Immigration to America
Author: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to America for a century, but this was the date associated with the first major wave-the first of many that
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to America for a century, but this was the date associated with the first major wave-the first of many that
The German Americans
Author: Peg Ashbrock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422206072
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the strong influence German culture has upon the fabric of American society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422206072
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the strong influence German culture has upon the fabric of American society.