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Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War
Wallace Hettle
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Description for Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War
Hardcover. A study of politics in the 19th-century American South. It seeks to illuminate the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. At the heart of the book is a collective biography of five individuals. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
How democratic was the Democratic Party of the antebellum South? Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics inthe nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter - a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a ""Civil War synthesis,"" The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric about the shared interests of white men. The Peculiar Democracy ... Read more
How democratic was the Democratic Party of the antebellum South? Too often, Wallace Hettle points out, studies of politics inthe nineteenth-century South reinforce a view of the Democratic Party that is frozen in time on the eve of Fort Sumter - a deceptively high point of white racial solidarity. Avoiding such a ""Civil War synthesis,"" The Peculiar Democracy illuminates the link between the Jacksonian political culture that dominated antebellum debate and the notorious infighting of the Confederacy. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric about the shared interests of white men. The Peculiar Democracy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820322827
SKU
V9780820322827
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About Wallace Hettle
Wallace Hettle is an associate professor of history at the University of Northern Iowa.
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