Preserving the White Mans Republic - Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism Lynn Joshua A. Pevná vazba
Preserving the White Mans Republic - Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism Lynn Joshua A. Pevná vazba In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals…
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Preserving the White Mans Republic - Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American Conservatism Lynn Joshua A. Pevná vazba
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 boundaries by democratically withholding rights. They also promised white men local democracy and individual autonomy regarding temperance, religion, and nativism. With the policy of "popular sovereignty," Democrats left slavery's expansion to white men's democratic decision-making.
Translating white men's household mastery into political power over all