Becoming American under fire : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era /
In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American soldiers influenced the modern vision of national citizenship that developed during the Civil War era. By bearing arms for the Union, African Americans and Irish Americans exhibite...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
©2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The crisis of citizenship in the 1850s
- The question of armed service
- African Americans in arms
- Equal rights and the experience of military justice for African American soldiers
- Irish Americans in arms
- African Americans and the call for rights
- The affirmation of naturalized citizenship in America
- The affirmation of naturalized citizenship abroad
- Epilogue: the legacy of national citizenship in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.