The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War

by Bruce Levine

Immigrants and their children became the chief component of the U.S. working class during the nineteenth century. Bruce Levine examines the early years of this social transformation, focusing on German-born craft workers and the key roles they played in the economic and political life of the wage-earning population of antebellum America. Interweaving themes often treated separately---immigration, industrialization, class formation, and the political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252018737
• ISBN13: 9780252018732
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"