The Ruling Race - A History of American Slaveholders (Paperback)

A History of American Slaveholders
With a new introduction

"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."—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.

"Invaluable."—Los Angeles Times

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1998
First published:	1998
Authors:	James Oakes
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-31705-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	0-393-31705-6
Barcode:	9780393317053

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