Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393317053

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by James Oakes (Author)

This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. The Civil War was not an inevitable conflict between civilizations on different paths but the crack-up of a single system, the result of people and events.

Number of Pages: 334

Dimensions: 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN

Publication Date: January 17, 1998

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