A slight revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Universität Frankfurt a.M., 1995).
Originally published in German: Stuttgart : Steiner,1998, under title: Friedrich Hecker : Biographie eines Republikaners.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Early years -- Political concepts -- Radicalization and revolution (1847-48) -- Exile and new homeland (1848-54) -- Beginnings of the republican party in Illinois (1854-60) -- Hecker and the American Civil War (1861-65) -- Reconstruction (1865-76) -- Germany--a country without a bill of rights -- Lectures -- Apologist for the republican party (1876-81) -- Principle of freedom : cosmopolitan unity versus the ethnic nation.
