The 1848ers "When the Revolution of 1848 in Prussia, along with upheavals in minor German states led to the convening of a German National Assembly in Frankfurt's Paulskirche, the aspirations of middle-class liberates toward national unity, civil liberties and democracy seemed at first to be nearing fulfillment. But their revolutionary hopes of transforming the loose "German Confederation" into a unified and democratically constituted "German Empire" were soon dashed by the conservative-minded establishment, and reaction triumphed. Of the liberal nationalists who now became political refugees, over four thousand went into exile in America, the country whose revolutionary ideals had served them as an example."
The German Forty-Eighters in America: 150th Anniversary Assessment by Don Tolzmann The Men of 1848An introductory by Rudolf Cronau from his book German Achievements in Amerika. Unity and Justice and Freedom: The German Revolution of 1848/49by the German Information Center The Revolutions of 1848 Forty-Eighters and Nativists Part1: Coming to America Part2: Establishing German Organizations in America Part3: Germans Face Discrimination Civil War and Reconstruction Germans and Political Interest The Volunteer Army The Political Involvement Related Information: The German Revolutions of 1848 by Robert A. Selig for German Life Magazine Likes Attract: German Clubs and the Display of "Germanness" from the German-Americans an Ethnic Experience Book Xenophobia American Nativism from the German-Americans an Ethnic Experience Book History of the Thirty-Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
