German Americans on the Middle Border

Released on by Zachary Stuart Garrison
preview-18

  • German Americans on the Middle Border Book Detail

  • Author : Zachary Stuart Garrison
  • Release Date : 2019-12-23
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 240
  • ISBN 13 : 0809337568
  • File Size : 69,69 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

German Americans on the Middle Border by Zachary Stuart Garrison PDF Summary

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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own German Americans on the Middle Border books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

German Americans on the Middle Border

German Americans on the Middle Border

File Size : 43,43 MB
Total View : 6548 Views
DOWNLOAD

Before the Civil War, Northern, Southern, and Western political cultures crashed together on the middle border, where the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers

The Civil War Soldier and the Press

The Civil War Soldier and the Press

File Size : 80,80 MB
Total View : 4165 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nation’s understanding and memory of the common soldier, setting the stage fo

A Fire Bell in the Past

A Fire Bell in the Past

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 4734 Views
DOWNLOAD

Many new states entered the United States around 200 years ago, but only Missouri almost killed the nation it was trying to join. When the House of Representati