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| Format | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Creator | Meyer, Luciana Ranshofen-Wertheimer |
| Title | German-American Migration and the Bancroft Naturalization Treaties, 1868-1910 |
| Dissertation Note (type -- academic institution) | Dissertation --The City University of New York |
| Date | 1970 |
| Extent of Work | 291 pp. |
| Abstract | The German states did not recognize the right of free expatriation and change of nationality to the American colonies after the Civil War. In addition, they demanded some form of military service from all their able-bodied male subjects. The government of a naturalized American citizen's country of birth continued to regard the migrant as owing military service to his home state. The citizen then risked arrest and being forced into service to serve out his full term of duty. This treatment of naturalized American citizens caused much bitterness among German-Americans. Five naturalization treaties were signed in the post-Civil War period with Prussia, Bavaria, Baden, Wuerttemberg, and Hesse. The Prussian treaty has justly been called a fundamental breakthrough in international law in that it constituted the first formal recognition by a European power of the principle of expatriation and change of allegiance. The five treaties covered all German territory at the time with the exception of Austria. Questions with respect to emigration or immigration arising thereafter between the United States and these German states should have been amicably settled on the basis of these treaties. That this was not so is attested to by the fact that about five hundred controversial cases arose between 1868 and 1910 involving differences of interpretation or opinion between the United States and the German states. This dissertation analyzes the role of these so-called Bancroft naturalization treaties as a contributing source of those differences. |
| Notes | UMI, printed in 1988. Book, in MadCat. |
| Call Number | MKI JX4265 M49x; shelved with MKI dissertations |
| MKI Terms | 19th century/ Prussia/ Politics/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans/ Naturalization |