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Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:James OakesPublish date:1998-01-01Pages:334
Language:EnglishPublisher:Airphoto International Ltd.ISBN-13:9780393317053ISBN-10:393317056UPC:9780393317053Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC91HHK0FA

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Airphoto International Ltd.ISBN-13:9780393317053ISBN-10:393317056UPC:9780393317053Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC91HHK0FA
Oakes, James: - James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Publisher: Airphoto International Ltd.

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