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Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jan 17th, 1998
- Pages: 334
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 1.00in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780393317053
- Categories: • United States - 19th Century
About the Author
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.
Praise for this book
Invaluable.-- "Los Angeles Times"