Distant revolutions 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Timothy Mason, 1964-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Series:Jeffersonian America.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.