Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Ambivalence of Americans Abroad 21 2. The Rise and Fall of the 1848 Revolutions in American Public Culture 42 3. The Presidential Campaign of 1848: Competing Rhetorics of Revolution 63 4. American Reform: Transatlantic Inspiration 81 5. The Conservative Christian Alliance 105 6. Secession or Revolution? The South and the Crisis of 1850 125 7. Louis Kossuth and the Campaign of 1852 146 8. The Antislavery Movement as a Crisis of American Exceptionalism 168 Epilogue: From 1848 to 1863 187 Chronology of Events, 1848–1854 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 219 Index 249 Contents ...