Includes bibliographical references ( pages 187-208) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Im Abendlande -- Building a Neuen Deutschland: the Dreissiger Immigration and the origins of German liberalism in the border West -- The politicization of German liberals: the Revolution of 1848 and the second wave of German immigration to the border West -- "I was an enthusiastic democrat in those days": free soil, free labor, and the realignment of German liberals in the border West, 1852-1856 -- Antislavery Germans and the Election of 1860 -- The West's most loyal unionists: union, emancipation, and German soldiers' motivations in the border west -- Rebel bushwhackers and the "damned Dutch": radical Germans and the deeper roots of Missouri's guerrilla war -- The radical turn: abolition and the crisis of German liberalism in the border West -- "A terrible mistake was made": the retreat of German liberalism in the border West.
Summary:
"This book assesses the impact of German immigrant liberal ideology on the "Middle Border," the region suddenly bisected by slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century and physically separated by the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys." --Provided by publisher.
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