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.
#287856 in Books 2016-09-15Original language:English 10.90 x 1.10 x 9.10l; .0 #File Name: 0393283127736 pages
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