Research Guide to the Turner Movement in the United States

by Eric Pumroy

From the mid-19th century through World War I, Turner societies were among the most important secular organizations in German immigrant communities in America. Brought to the United States by refugees from the failed Revolution of 1848 in Germany, the Turner movement became a home for German abolitionists, workers' rights advocates, and other reformers. This book is the result of a project to locate the surviving documentation on the Turner movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313297630
• ISBN13: 9780313297632
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"