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Becoming American under fire : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era
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Becoming American under fire : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / Christian G. Samito.
ISBN
9780801448461 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801448468 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
x, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The crisis of citizenship in the 1850s
The question of armed service
African Americans in arms
Equal rights and the experience of military justice for African American soldiers
Irish Americans in arms
African Americans and the call for rights
The affirmation of naturalized citizenship in America
The affirmation of naturalized citizenship abroad
Epilogue : the legacy of national citizenship in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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