Becoming American under fire [electronic resource] : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / Christian G. Samito.
2009
E540.I6 S25 2009eb
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Becoming American under fire [electronic resource] : Irish Americans, African Americans, and the politics of citizenship during the Civil War era / Christian G. Samito.
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9780801448461 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801463761 (e-book)
9780801463761 (e-book)
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c2009.
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English
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x, 305 p. : ill.
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E540.I6 S25 2009eb
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973.7/415
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.