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

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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 Democracy as a tool for local majorities of white men to police racial and gender ...

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Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism 2021, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813948508

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Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism 2019, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville

ISBN-13: 9780813942506

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