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From Union To Empire: Essays In The Jeffersonian Tradition - Clyde Wilson. Few modern authors do a better job of vindicating Southern culture and history than Clyde Wilson. His superb prose and detailed scope of knowledge allow him to truly penetrate the topic at hand in a substantial way. From Union To Empire exhibits Wilson at his best. An excellent resource to help understand the original.
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He has written or edited more than thirty books, most recently From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition (2002). Dr. Wilson is a contributing editor of Chronicles magazine and director of the League of the South Institute for the Study of Southern Culture and History.
Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s.The Jeffersonians were deeply committed to American republicanism, which meant opposition to what they considered to be artificial aristocracy, opposition to corruption, and insistence on virtue, with a priority for the.
He is the author of Carolina Cavalier: The Life and Mind of James Johnston Pettigrew; From Union to Empire: Essays in the Jeffersonian Tradition; and Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. Dr. Wilson is. recipient of the Bostick Medal for Contributions to South Carolina Letters; the John Randolph Club Award for Lifetime. Achievment; the M.E. Bradford Distinguished Chair of.
American historians have generally treated Populism in one of two ways: They have either confused it with the Progressivism that followed shortly on its heels, as a forerunner of the New Deal and.