Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism / / Timothy Mason Roberts
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| Autore: |
Roberts Timothy Mason <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism / / Timothy Mason Roberts
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Revolutions - Europe - History - 19th century |
| National characteristics, American | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Intellectual life 1783-1865 |
| Europe History 1848-1849 | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Distant revolutions |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49023-3 |
| 9786613585462 | |
| 0-8139-2818-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910829028703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Jeffersonian America.