GERMAN Revolutionaries
Their impact in 19th Century USA
In the year 1776, as Thomas Paine exhorted his fellow Americans to wrest their own liberty from the British empire, he reminded them of the international significance of their cause: “Freedom hat been hunted around the globe…”. S
ince then, many immigrants have accepted Paine‘s implicit ‘invitation’.
Few, however, have attracted more attention or left a deeper imprint than a levy of Germans who arrived in the United States during the era when their homeland was convulsed by the social and political crises that culminated in the failed revolutions of 1848/49. Of course, by no means all of the more than one and half million who emigrated in that period considered themselves political ‘refugees’. But a great many, from all walks of life, were touched and influenced by the era’s widespread spirit of dissent.
As Friedrich Kapp put it, addressing a large immigrant audience in New York City in the 1850s, “We are all either social or political refugees. Dissatisfaction with the political or social relations of Europe led us hither…,we came here with a firm determination to hold on to our principles”.
This broad layer of immigrants provided the primary audience for the refugee intellectuals commonly thought of as the ‘real’ forty-eighters. What were their principles?
Broadly defined, they were people of the political left. These self-consciously political refugees and their numerous supporters, in turn, had a still broader impact on the United States because the kind of issues that concerned them and the various solutions they championed had a trans-Atlantic resonance. It was their discovery that the United States had not solved the problems attendant upon these powerful developments that convinced many German emigres that the causes with which they had identified in Europe retained their relevance and urgency in their adoptive homeland.
Thus, within a few years of their arrival, many forty-eighters found themselves involved in a host of controversies and movements in their adoptive homeland. And for some of them, the U.S’s Civil War offered the chance to achieve victory in a freedom struggle that had failed in Europe.
In these ways and others, the immigrant generation of 1848 became important players in the drama of 19th-Century American life. Carl Schurz became as ‘Secretary for Domestic Affairs’ under Praesident Lincoln an influential political person.
Our collection is an invaluable aid to those wishing to study first-hand a turbulent, fascinating, and seminal chapter in USA 19th Century history.
53 ebook-titles with 14,000 pages,
including 37 Non-Fiction ebooks, ca 8.970 p.,
and 16 Fiction ebooks, ca 4.700 S.
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Our collection includes titles by/about Carl Schurz, Karl Heinzen, Gustav Koerner, Friedrich Kapp, Heinrich Rattermann, Mathilde F. Anneke and others, most of which were originally published in the United States. The title “History of Slavery in the United States of America” is also included in this edition. These eBook titles are a rare resource for historians, German and American studies scholars, as well as historically oriented political scientists and geographers.
53 ebook-Titel,
inclusive 37 Sachbuch-ebooks, (12 Titel in Englischer Sprache), ca 8.970 S.,
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