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364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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New German-American studies ; v. 22 |
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New German-American studies ; v. 22.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-353) and index. |
| Summary |
"Mid-nineteenth-century Germany and the United States constitute the background for the life story of Adolf Douai as educator, author, editor, and self-declared radical. A member of the 1848 revolutionary Landtag of Saxe-Altenburg, he was imprisoned by reactionaries and later forced to flee the country. His career in the United States illustrates general sociopolitical conditions faced by German Forty-Eighters arriving as refugees. In Texas Douai edited an abolitionist newspaper for three years but threats by Know-Nothings forced him to flee to the north, where he was recruited by organizers of the new Republican Party who hoped to attract German voters for Fremont (1856) and Lincoln (1860). Douai is generally associated with the Frobel kindergarten system. His contacts included Robert Blum, Mikhail Bakunin, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Louis Agassiz."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. The Revolution of 1848 Turned Inside Out: Douai's Life as a Clue to the Larger Picture -- Chapter 2. Russian Interlude during the German Vormarz -- Chapter 3. Altenburg's Bloodless Barricades -- Chapter 4. Three Unfortunate German Parliaments -- Chapter 5. Dark Days for the Radicals--October-December 1848 -- Chapter 6. The Moderates Withdraw -- Chapter 7. The Radicals Fight On -- Chapter 8. Model Victims of the Reaction -- Chapter 9. A Texas Abolitionist -- Chapter 10. Antebellum Disarray, North and South -- Chapter 11. Douai as an Educator -- Chapter 12. Douai as a Socialist -- Chapter 13. "My Brave Wife" Agnes von Beust (1819-1898) -- Chapter 14. Battle of the Champions: Douai vs. Heinzen. |
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Douai, Adolf, 1819-1888.
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German Americans -- Biography.
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Forty-Eighters (American immigrants) -- Biography.
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Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
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Educators -- United States -- Biography.
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Political activists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Germany -- History -- Revolution, 1848-1849.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877.
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Texas -- Politics and government -- 1846-1865.
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Douai, Adolf, 1819-1888. (OCoLC)fst00274130
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Educators. (OCoLC)fst00903702
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Forty-Eighters (American immigrants) (OCoLC)fst00933104
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German Americans. (OCoLC)fst00941308
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Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Texas. (OCoLC)fst01210336
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Revolution (Germany : 1848-1849) (OCoLC)fst01907544 |
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1846-1877
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0820448818 (alk. paper) |
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9780820448817 (alk. paper) |
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