Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that they and their ethnic children conformed to or dissented from the norms of the dominant white Southern culture. Walter D. Kamphoefner, author of The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri Demonstrates the importance of Charleston s Germans and their relationships with African Americans throughout these thirty turbulent years. Dennis C. Rousey, author of Policing the Southern City: New Orleans, 1805 1889 A provocative study that...
Ambitious and convincing. This is the first examination of the role of European immigrants in the most southern of U.S. cities and the way that they a...