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Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism /

"Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism is a study of American politics, culture, and foreign relations in the mid-nineteenth century, illuminated through the reactions of Americans to the European revolutions of 1848. Flush from the recent American military vict...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roberts, Timothy Mason, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.