What Then is the American, This New Man: Citizenship in the Civil War Era

Author Type

Faculty

College

Arts and Letters

Department

History

Document Type

Book Review

Publication/Event/Conference Title

Reviews in American History

Publication Status

Version of Record

Abstract

According to Efford, German Republicans in the postwar period accentuated cultural trends and at times acted decisively to shape political turning points in an age when the white immigrant man had become the representative new citizen. [...]Ger- man constructions of ethnicity in the United States were no longer beneficial to African Americans.

First Page

438

Last Page

444

DOI

10.1353/rah.2014.0080

Publication Date

2014

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