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The ruling race : a history of American slaveholders / by James Oakes.
Record details
- ISBN: 0394521633
- Physical Description: xix, 307 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1982.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index. |
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| Subject: | Slaveholders > Southern States. Southern States > Social conditions. Slavery > Southern States. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana State Library - Indianapolis | ISLM E441 .O18 1982 (Text) | 0000102167558 | General book | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
This study analyzes the market economy of the South, the people and groups that constituted the class of slaveholders, and the paradox of a Southern ideology, rooted in the economy, that emphasized equality of opportunity, patriotism, democracy, and racism - Random House, Inc.
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.
