The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."â€•David Herbert Donald
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.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780393317053
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1998-01-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393317053

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