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James Oakes
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The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders |
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English |
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Paperback |
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336 |
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1998-01-17 |
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0393317056 |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.88 pounds |
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5.35 x 0.87 x 8.07 inches |
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0 |
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Product Description
"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.
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http://bookmooch.com/0393317056 |
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