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Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism / Timothy Mason Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Timothy Mason, 1964-
- Series:
- Jeffersonian America.
- Jeffersonian America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Revolutions--Europe--History--19th century.
- Revolutions.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Intellectual life--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Europe--History--1848-1849.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Civil War, then, when it came, was America's answer to the 1848 revolutions, a testimony to America's democratic shortcomings, and an American version of a violent, nation-building revolution.
- Contents:
- The ambivalence of Americans abroad
- The rise and fall of the 1848 revolutions in American public culture
- The presidential campaign of 1848 : competing rhetorics of revolution
- American reform : transatlantic inspiration
- The conservative Christian alliance
- Secession or revolution? : the south and the crisis of 1850
- Louis Kossuth and the campaign of 1852
- The antislavery movement as a crisis of American exceptionalism
- Epilogue : from 1848 to 1863.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585462
- 9781280490231
- 1280490233
- 9780813928180
- 0813928184
- OCLC:
- 753976368
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