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Liberty and Slavery European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War / Niels Eichhorn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eichhorn, Niels 1984- Author.
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Causes.
- War.
- Separatist movements.
- Secession.
- Military participation--Foreign.
- Military participation.
- Liberty.
- Forty-Eighters (American immigrants).
- Emigration and immigration.
- Autonomy and independence movements.
- Antislavery movements.
- Antislavery movements--History--19th century.
- Liberty--History--19th century.
- Secession--Southern States.
- Separatist movements--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Southern States.
- Europe.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Foreign.
- Europe--History--Autonomy and independence movements.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 202 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2019]
- Summary:
- "In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn suggests that the language of slavery--the essence of human oppression--was a crucial component for revolutionary struggles, especially separatist ones, in Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century. By tracing separatist uprisings and revolutionaries from 1830 and 1848 to 1861, his study shows that separatism was a widespread phenomenon during the nineteenth century and that the southern Confederacy in America was nothing unique. In addition, by looking at the language of slavery, which served to justify separatism in places like Poland and Hungary but not Ireland or Schleswig-Holstein, Eichhorn's work provides additional answers to why European separatists sided with the Union rather than the Confederacy during the American Civil War. He places the events in North America in a broader international framework and illustrates important complexities regarding trans-Atlantic migration studies"
- Introduction: The separatist Atlantic world -- The revolutions of 1830 -- 1848 in the North Atlantic revolutionary world -- European secessionist migration -- Antebellum separatist interaction -- Secession and a separatist's dilemma -- North America's separatist revolution -- The defeat of secession in the North Atlantic.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The separatist Atlantic world
- The revolutions of 1830
- 1848 in the North Atlantic revolutionary world
- European secessionist migration
- Antebellum separatist interaction
- Secession and a separatist's dilemma
- North America's separatist revolution
- The defeat of secession in the North Atlantic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196) and index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807171820
- 0807171824
- OCLC:
- 1124679044
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