German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (Paperback)

Introduction: naturalized citizens, transnational perspectives, and the arc of reconstruction; 1. The German language of American citizenship; 2. The 'freedom-loving German', 1854?60; 3. Black suffrage as a German cause in Missouri, 1865; 4. Principal rising, 1865?9; 5. Wendepunkt: the Franco-Prussian War, 1870?1; 6. The Liberal Republican transition, 1870?2; 7. Class, culture, and the decline of reconstruction, 1870?6; Epilogue: the Great Strike of 1877; Appendix: voting tables; Bibliography.