Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism
(Part of the A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Series)
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In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of the Civil War. Responding to fears of African American and female political agency, Democrats in the late 1840s and 1850s reinvented themselves as "conservatives" and repurposed Jacksonian...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813948509
ISBN13:9780813948508
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.94 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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