[PDF.60dc] The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (Working Class in American History)

The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (Working Class in American History)

[PDF.kc54] The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (Working Class in American History)

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 | #1731133 in Books |  1992-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,1.70 | File type: PDF | 400 pages

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||3 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| An important topic; parts are a bit dull|By Marc Lichtman|Many thousands of Germans came to the US after the failure of the 1848 revolution, joining others who were already here. They played a big role in the trade union movement, founded Marxism in the US, and were prominent (mostly on the Union side) in the Civil War. The Germans of St. Louis kept that city for the Union. Thi|From Library Journal|In this admirable addition to the series, Levine (history, Univ. of Cincinnati) successfully pursues the "relationship between class and ethnicity" by examining the influence of German-American immigrants in antebellum and Civil War America.

Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social transformation, focusing on German-born craft workers and the key roles they played in the economic and political life of the wage-earning population of antebellum America. Interweaving themes often treated separately--immigration, industrialization, class formation, and the political polarization over slav...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (Working Class in American History)   |  Bruce Levine.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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