The Resource Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism, Timothy Mason Roberts
Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism, Timothy Mason Roberts
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- Summary
- "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 victory over Mexico, many Americans celebrated news of democratic revolutions breaking out across Europe as a further sign of divine providence. Others thought that the 1848 revolutions served only to highlight how America's own revolution had not done enough in the way of reform. Still other Americans renounced the 1848 revolutions and the thought of trans-atlantic unity because they interpreted European revolutionary radicalism and its portents of violence, socialism, and atheism as dangerous to the unique virtues of the United States. When the 1848 revolutions failed to create stable democratic governments in Europe, many Americans declared that their own revolutionary tradition was superior; American reform would be gradual and peaceful. Thus, when violence erupted over the question of territorial slavery in the 1850s, the effect was magnified among antislavery Americans, who reinterpreted the menace of slavery in light of the revolutions and counter-revolutions of Europe. For them a new revolution in America could indeed be necessary, to stop the onset of authoritarian conditions and to cure American exemplarism. 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"--Bbok jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780813928180
- Label
- Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
- Title
- Distant revolutions
- Title remainder
- 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
- Statement of responsibility
- Timothy Mason Roberts
- Title variation
- 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism
- Subject
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- Etats-Unis -- révolutions de 1848 | 1848 -- 1854
- Europa
- Europa (geografie)
- Europe
- Europe -- History -- 1848-1849
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
- History
- Intellectual life
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- Nationale identiteit
- Revoluties
- Revolution
- Revolutions
- Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865
- Verenigde Staten
- 1783-1899
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 victory over Mexico, many Americans celebrated news of democratic revolutions breaking out across Europe as a further sign of divine providence. Others thought that the 1848 revolutions served only to highlight how America's own revolution had not done enough in the way of reform. Still other Americans renounced the 1848 revolutions and the thought of trans-atlantic unity because they interpreted European revolutionary radicalism and its portents of violence, socialism, and atheism as dangerous to the unique virtues of the United States. When the 1848 revolutions failed to create stable democratic governments in Europe, many Americans declared that their own revolutionary tradition was superior; American reform would be gradual and peaceful. Thus, when violence erupted over the question of territorial slavery in the 1850s, the effect was magnified among antislavery Americans, who reinterpreted the menace of slavery in light of the revolutions and counter-revolutions of Europe. For them a new revolution in America could indeed be necessary, to stop the onset of authoritarian conditions and to cure American exemplarism. 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"--Bbok jacket
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1964-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roberts, Timothy Mason
- Dewey number
- 973.6
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E166
- LC item number
- .R63 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Jeffersonian America
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Europe
- Revolutions
- National characteristics, American
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
- Intellectual life
- National characteristics, American
- Revolutions
- Europe
- United States
- Nationale identiteit
- Revoluties
- Verenigde Staten
- Europa (geografie)
- Revolution
- Etats-Unis
- Europa
- USA
- Label
- Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism, Timothy Mason Roberts
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 753976368
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813928180
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6tbb54
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753976368
- Label
- Distant revolutions : 1848 and the challenge to American exceptionalism, Timothy Mason Roberts
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 753976368
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813928180
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, map
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt6tbb54
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753976368
Subject
- Etats-Unis -- révolutions de 1848 | 1848 -- 1854
- Europa
- Europa (geografie)
- Europe
- Europe -- History -- 1848-1849
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
- History
- Intellectual life
- National characteristics, American
- National characteristics, American
- Nationale identiteit
- Revoluties
- Revolution
- Revolutions
- Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865
- Verenigde Staten
- 1783-1899
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