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Civil War Citizens : Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America's Bloodiest Conflict.
At its core, the Civil War was a conflict over the meaning of citizenship. Most famously, it became a struggle over whether or not to grant rights to a group that stood outside the pale of civil-society: African Americans. But other groups--namely Jews, Germans, the Irish, and Native Americans--also...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1 Yankee Dutchmen: Germans, the Union, and the Construction of Wartime Identity; 2 "With More Freedom and Independence Than the Yankees": The Germans of Richmond, Charleston, and New Orleans during the American Civil War; 3 "Ye Sons of Green Erin Assemble": Northern Irish American Catholics and the Union War Effort, 1861-1865; 4 Irish Rebels, Southern Rebels: The Irish Confederates; 5 The Jewish Confederates; 6 Native Americans in the Civil War: Three Experiences; 7 The African American Struggle for Citizenship Rights in the Northern United States during the Civil War.
- About the ContributorsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W.