美国早期运河热潮的舆论准备:论共和国初期大众刊物对国家命运的关注

修建运河以连接自然河流和湖泊成为美国建国初期的一大政治共识。逐渐增多的大众刊物为美国早期运河意识从政治领域向社会生活领域普及提供了重要媒介,在美国早期运河热潮中发挥了积极作用。通过报道和评论当时仍然比较零星的运河工程,共和国初期的大众刊物不仅为以1825年伊利运河为代表的运河建设高潮打下了舆论基础,崭露头角的刊物本身也因此表达了对美国命运的关注,有机地融入了美国联邦的巩固进程。

Media Support for the Canal Mania in Early America: On the Attention of Magazines to National Destiny in the Early Republic

To connect rivers and lakes into a navigational network with canals was one of the political consensuses in the newly founded United States.With the appearance and increase of magazines,the canal consciousness effectively spread from the sphere of politics to that of social life.While arousing widespread public interest and enthusiasm in canal construction,which peaked in the Erie Canal,canal reports and comments unmistakably expressed the concern of mass magazines with American destiny and integrated those magazines into the consolidation process of the American Union.