Description
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.
Author: James Oakes
Publisher: Airphoto International Ltd.
Published: 01/01/1998
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780393317053
ISBN10: 0393317056
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century