Distant revolutions
Subtitle: 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
By: Timothy Mason Roberts.
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813927992; 9780813928180
Subjects: Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics, American; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865; Europe -- History -- 1848-1849
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ambivalence of Americans abroad; title: The rise and fall of the 1848 revolutions in American public culture; title: The presidential campaign of 1848, competing rhetorics of revolution; title: American reform,  transatlantic inspiration; title: The conservative christian alliance; title: Secession or revolution?: the south and the crisis of 1850; title: Louis Kossuth and the campaign of 1852; title: The antislavery movement as a crisis of American exceptionalism; title: Epilogue: from 1848 to 1863.