Refugees of Revolution
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Refugees of Revolution

The German Forty-Eighters in America

  1. 396 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Refugees of Revolution

The German Forty-Eighters in America

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION
  4. Chapter 2. THE GERMAN ELEMENT BEFORE 1848
  5. Chapter 3. THE REVOLUTION OF 1848–1849
  6. Chapter 4. THE RESPONSE FROM AMERICA
  7. Chapter 5. THE GREAT MIGRATION
  8. Chapter 6. UPROOTED LIVES
  9. Chapter 7. NON-GERMAN FORTY–EIGHTERS
  10. Chapter 8. “GERMAN FENIANISM”
  11. Chapter 9. “LATIN FARMERS”
  12. Chapter 10. FREETHINKERS AND PERSONAL LIBERTY
  13. Chapter 11. THE TURNER
  14. Chapter 12. POLITICAL RADICALISM
  15. Chapter 13. NATIVISM
  16. Chapter 14. THE SLAVERY ISSUE
  17. Chapter 15. THE BATTLE FOR THE GERMAN VOTE
  18. Chapter 16. IN DEFENSE OF THE UNION
  19. Chapter 17. THE POLITICS OF THE POST-WAR YEARS
  20. Chapter 18. THE JOURNALISTS
  21. Chapter 19. THE GERMAN SOCIAL PATTERN
  22. Chapter 20. LEARNING AND LETTERS
  23. Chapter 21. THE REWARDS OF LABOR IN FREE AMERICA
  24. Chapter 22. BISMARCK AND GERMAN UNITY
  25. Chapter 23. THE END OF AN ERA
  26. INDEX