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Article: The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- September 22, 1993
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This work by Bruce Levine provides a welcome and largely successful attempt to integrate immigration, labor and political history through a consideration of the role of radical German democrats in the Civil War era United States.
It opens with an excellent pair of chapters on the German background to the emigration, chapters which synthesize much of the latest literature on the subject and which provide the best short history now available in English. Given the importance of radical democratic, republican and social republican ideas to the work as a whole, Levine would have done even better if he had paid more attention to the broader international context of ...