Transborder Capitalism and National Reconciliation: The American Press Reimagines U.S.-Mexico Relations after the Civil War

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Alys Beverton
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Abstract The end of the Civil War did not eradicate Americans’ concerns regarding the fragility of their republic. For many years after Appomattox, newspapers from across the political spectrum warned that the persistence of sectionalism in the postwar United States threatened to condemn the country to the kind of interminable internal disorder supposedly endemic among the republics of Latin America. This article examines how, from the early 1870s onward, growing numbers of U.S. editors, journalists, and political leaders called on Americans to concentrate on extending their nation’s commercial reach into Mexico. In doing so, they hoped to topple divisive domestic issues—notably Reconstruction—from the top of the national political agenda. These leaders in U.S. public discourse also anticipated that collaboration in a project to extend the United States’ continental power would revive affective bonds of nationality between the people of the North and South. In making this analysis, this article argues that much of the early impetus behind U.S. commercial penetration south of the Rio Grande after the Civil War was fueled by Americans’ deep anxieties regarding the integrity of their so-called exceptional republic.
跨国资本主义与民族和解:美国媒体重塑南北战争后的美墨关系
摘要内战的结束并没有消除美国人对其共和国脆弱性的担忧。阿波马托克斯事件发生后的许多年里,来自各个政治派别的报纸都警告说,战后美国地区主义的持续存在可能会使该国陷入据称在拉丁美洲共和国中普遍存在的那种无休止的内部混乱。这篇文章探讨了从19世纪70年代初开始,越来越多的美国编辑、记者和政治领导人如何呼吁美国人集中精力将国家的商业影响力扩大到墨西哥。通过这样做,他们希望将分裂性的国内问题——尤其是重建问题——从国家政治议程的首位推翻。这些美国公共话语中的领导人还预计,在一个扩大美国大陆力量的项目中的合作将重振南北人民之间的民族情感纽带。在进行这一分析时,本文认为,南北战争后,美国在格兰德河以南的商业渗透背后的早期动力很大程度上是由美国人对他们所谓的特殊共和国的完整性深感焦虑所推动的。
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