The Ruling Race
- ISBN-10
- 0307828131
- ISBN-13
- 9780307828132
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-17
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- James Oakes
Description
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.
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