Devotion To The Adopted Country
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Devotion To The Adopted Country
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Author : Tyler V. Johnson
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Devotion To The Adopted Country written by Tyler V. Johnson and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with History categories.
In Devotion to the Adopted Country, Tyler V. Johnson looks at the efforts of America’s Democratic Party and Catholic leadership to use the service of immigrant volunteers in the U.S.–Mexican War as a weapon against nativism and anti-Catholicism. Each chapter focuses on one of the five major events or issues that arose during the war, finishing with how the Catholic and immigrant community remembered the war during the nativist resurgence of the 1850s and in the outbreak of the Civil War. Johnson’s book uncovers a new social aspect to military history by connecting the war to the larger social, political, and religious threads of antebellum history. Having grown used to the repeated attacks of nativists upon the fidelity and competency of the German and Irish immigrants flooding into the United States, Democratic and Catholic newspapers vigorously defended the adopted citizens they valued as constituents and congregants. These efforts frequently consisted of arguments extolling the American virtues of the recent arrivals, pointing to their hard work, love of liberty, and willingness to sacrifice for their adopted country. However, immigrants sometimes undermined this portrayal by prioritizing their ethnic and/or religious identities over their identities as new U.S. citizens. Even opportunities seemingly tailor-made for the defenders of Catholicism and the nation’s adopted citizens could go awry. When the supposedly well-disciplined Irish volunteers from Savannah brawled with soldiers from another Georgia company on a Rio Grande steamboat, the fight threatened to confirm the worst stereotypes of the nation’s new Irish citizens. In addition, although the Jesuits John McElroy and Anthony Rey gained admirers in the army and in the rest of the country for their untiring care for wounded and sick soldiers in northern Mexico, anti-Catholic activists denounced them for taking advantage of vulnerable young men to win converts for the Church. Using the letters and personal papers of soldiers, the diaries and correspondence of Fathers McElroy and Rey, Catholic and Democratic newspapers, and military records, Johnson illuminates the lives and actions of Catholic and immigrant volunteers and the debates over their participation in the war. Shedding light on this understudied and misunderstood facet of the war with Mexico, Devotion to the Adopted Country adds to the scholarship on immigration and religion in antebellum America, illustrating the contentious and controversial process by which immigrants and their supporters tried to carve out a place in U.S. society.
Black White
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
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Memorial Addresses On The Life And Character Of Michael Hahn A Representative Of Louisiana Delivered In The House Of Representatives And In The Senate Forty Ninth Congress First Session
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Memorial Addresses On The Life And Character Of Michael Hahn A Representative Of Louisiana Delivered In The House Of Representatives And In The Senate Forty Ninth Congress First Session written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with U.S. Congress categories.
Report
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Author : United States. Congress Senate
language : en
Publisher:
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Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
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Proceedings Of The Board Of Aldermen
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Aldermen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
Proceedings Of The Board Of Aldermen written by New York (N.Y.). Board of Aldermen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Municipal government publications categories.
Lisbon City Of The Sea
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Author : Malcolm Jack
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-08-22
Lisbon City Of The Sea written by Malcolm Jack and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with History categories.
Lisbon: City of the Sea is a beautifully written portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day. Malcolm Jack vividly captures the rich and unique history of this haunting and attractive port whose prominent position on the Tagus estuary has inextricably bound its character with the sea. Lisbon is a city of steep inclines and complicated, unsymmetrical streets that criss-cross the hills only in the Baixa area near the river and in the more modern, northern part of the city does any form of a grid system appear. It has enjoyed a political history that has directed Portugal's focus more overseas than inland towards continental Europe, in part because of Spain's geographical position. Thus the city has been stretched in one direction toward Brazil and in another toward the Cape of Good Hope and from there to Asia and the East. Beginning with its earliest inhabitants, Jack traces the city's life through its imperial success in the sixteenth century and the devastating earthquake that humbled the city and shocked Europe in 1755 to its current position as a vibrant and successful European capital. Lisbon's romantic atmosphere has captured the imaginations of foreigners through the ages. Poets, writers and musicians have all drawn inspiration from different parts of Lisbon. This sensitive exploration of the city's many aspects draws out its cosmopolitan nature, as well as its colourful culture and self-image and brings us closer to understanding its true spirit. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to Lisbon's many visitors as well as anyone interested in European history.
The Rebellion Record
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Author : Frank Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
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New Haven S Civil War Hospital
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Author : Ira Spar, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-11-05
New Haven S Civil War Hospital written by Ira Spar, M.D. and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with History categories.
As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the United States created a national care system primarily funded and regulated by the federal government. When New Haven, Connecticut, was chosen as the site for a new military hospital, Pliny Adams Jewett, next in line to become chief of surgery at Yale, sacrificed his private practice and eventually his future in New Haven to serve as chief of staff of the new thousand-bed Knight U.S. General Hospital. The "War Governor," William Buckingham, personally financed hospital construction while supporting needy soldiers and their families. He appointed state agents to scour battlefields and hospitals to ensure his state's soldiers got the best care while encouraging their transfer to the hospital in New Haven. This history of the hospital's construction and operation during the war discusses the state of medicine at the time as well as the administrative side of providing care to sick and wounded soldiers.
The London Quarterly Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
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