The Ruling Race

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations, Americas, United States, Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Author: James Oakes ISBN: 9780307828132
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: April 17, 2013
Imprint: Knopf Language: English
Author: James Oakes
ISBN: 9780307828132
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: April 17, 2013
Imprint: Knopf
Language: English

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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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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