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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781645503321

Autore

Roberts Timothy Mason <1964->

Titolo

Distant revolutions [[electronic resource] ] : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism / / Timothy Mason Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

1-280-49023-3

9786613585462

0-8139-2818-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Jeffersonian America

Disciplina

973.6

Soggetti

Revolutions - Europe - History - 19th century

National characteristics, American

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

Europe History 1848-1849

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.