The ruling race : a history of American slaveholders / by James Oakes.
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TextLanguage: English New York : Vintage Books, 1983©1982 Description: xix, 307 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0394716396 (paperbacj)Subject(s): Slaveholders -- Southern States | Slavery -- Southern States | Southern States -- Social conditionsSouthernLOC classification: E441 .O35 1983Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | MEF Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi | Genel Koleksiyon | E 441 .O35 1983 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | Bağışlayan: Bağış sahibi bilinmiyor | 0006492 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
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.