The Ruling Race

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 17 Apr 2013 - 320 halaman
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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THE COLONIAL LEGACY
Masterclass Pluralism
The Slaveholders Pilgrimage
The Convenient
Freedom and Bondage
PLANTATIONS PLEBEIANS
Factories in the Fields
Masters of Tradition
The Slaveholders Revolution
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JAMES OAKES is the author of several acclaimed books on slavery and the Civil War. His history of emancipation, Freedom National, won the Lincoln Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is Distinguished Professor of History and Graduate School Humanities Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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