Dr Alys D Beverton
@alysbeverton.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Researching C19th United States political and diplomatic culture. Views my own.
Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025
Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025
Thanks for this, it’s a great piece! Really helped with a bit of research I’m doing
January 26, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Thanks for this, it’s a great piece! Really helped with a bit of research I’m doing
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EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Exceptionalism in Crisis | Alys D. Beverton | University of North Carolina Press
Before 1861, US Americans could confidently claim to belong to the New World’s "exceptional" republic, unlike other self-governing nations in the Western H...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:00 PM
EXCEPTIONALISM IN CRISIS, by @alysbeverton.bsky.social. For many Americans in the 19thc, Mexico was regarded as the unstable, uncivilized, revolution-prone nation to the South - an example of what the US would never be. The Civil War made them revisit these assumptions. uncpress.org/book/9781469...