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Author Roberts, Timothy Mason, 1964-

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

Imprint Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

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Description xi, 256 p. : ill., map.
Series Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-248) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
Europe -- History -- 1848-1849.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813927992 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813927994 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813928184 (electronic bk.)
9780813928180 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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