Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism

by Joshua A Lynn and Joshua A. Lynn

Book Overview

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"