Marianne Debouzy
Introduction
I. The Image of the Model Republic and its Metamorphoses
Dirk Hoerder
German Immigrant Worker’s Views of « America » in the 1880s
Rudolph Vecoli
« Free Country » : The American Republic viewed by the Italian Left, 1880-1920
Lars-Göran Tedebraud
America in the Swedish Labor Press, 1880s to 1920s
II. The Immigrant Experience
1. Ellis Island : Experience at the Gate
Ivan Cizmic
The Experience of South Slav Immigrants on Ellis Island and the Establishment of the Slavonic Immigrant Society in New York
2. Experience in the Factory
Adam Walaszek
« For in America Poles are like Cattle »: Polish Peasant Immigrants and Work in America, 1890-1891
Ferdinando Fasoe
Freedom in the Workplace ? Immigrants at the Scovill Manufac-turing Company, 1915-1921
III. The Transatlantic Perspective
1. Immigrant Radicalism : the European Connection
Bruno Cartosio
Sicilian Radicals in Two Worlds
Julianna Puskas
Hungarian Immigration and Socialism
Ronald Creagh
Socialism in America : The French-Speaking Coal Miners
Hubert Perrier
Le Parti Ouvrier Socialiste d’Amérique du Nord jusqu’en 1886
2. The Impact of American social events on European Social Movements
Michel Cordillot
Les réactions européennes aux événements de Haymarket
IV. A nation « intended for a race of free men »
1. Republicanism interpreted and reinterpreted
Linda Schneider
Republicanism Reinterpreted : American Ironworkers, 1860-1892
Nick Salvatore
Some Thoughts on Class and Citizenship in America :
2. The New Ideology of Citizenship
Catherine Collomp
Les organisations ouvrières et la restriction de l’immigration aux États-Unis à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle
IIartmut Keil
An Ambivalent Identity : The Attitude of German Socialist Immigrants Toward American Political institutions and American Citizenship
3. Citizens’ Rights Challenged
Risa Lieherwita
The Use of Criminal Conspiracy Prosecutions to Restrict Freedom of Speech
Marie-France Toinet
La Participation Politique des Ouvriers Américains à la fin du XIXe siècle
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Notes on Contributors