| Description |
456 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-438) and index. |
| Summary |
From acclaimed Abraham Lincoln historian Harold Holzer, a groundbreaking account of Lincoln's grappling with the politics of immigration against the backdrop of the Civil War. In the three decades before the Civil War, some ten million foreign-born people settled in the United States, forever altering the nation's demographics, culture, and--perhaps most significantly--voting patterns. America's newest residents fueled the national economy, but they also wrought enormous changes in the political landscape, and exposed an ugly, at times violent, vein of nativist bigotry. Abraham Lincoln's rise ran parallel to this turmoil; even Lincoln himself did not always rise above it. Tensions over immigration would split and ultimately destroy Lincoln's Whig Party years before the Civil War. Yet the war would make clear just how important immigrants were, and how interwoven they had become in American society. |
| Contents |
Introduction: For the encouragement of immigration -- A world in miniature -- So much savage feeling -- No objection to fuse with any body -- Our equals in all things -- A vital part of freedom -- Teutonic expectants -- I fights mit Sigel -- God bless the Irish flag -- More of the quarrel -- This noble effort -- Scattered to the winds. |
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
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Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Biography / Autobiography. (local)tlcaut818163033493500
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Presidents & Heads of State. (local)tlcaut974609577038400
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United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) (local)tlcaut1703182735100349455
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Emigration & Immigration. (local)tlcaut1703182735100575567
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| Added Title |
Abraham Lincoln and American immigration |
| ISBN |
9780451489012 (hardcover) |
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0451489012 (hardcover) |
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