Origins of Southern Radicalism: The South Carolina Upcountry, 1800-1860

ISBN-13: 9780195069617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 432 str.

Jr. Lacy K. Ford; K. Jr. Lacy Ford

Opis

In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector that served as a hotbed of Southern radicalism. This groundbreaking study examines this startling evolution, tracing the growth, logic, and strategy of pro-slavery radicalism and the circumstances and values of white society and politics to analyze why the white majority of the Old South ultimately supported the secession movement that led to bloody civil war.

Recenzje

This is a superb book. It carefully situates republican ideology in its social, economic, and political context and skillfully portrays interrelationships between ideas and social reality.