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The Ruling Race
James Oakes
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2013-04-17
主題
Social Science / Slavery
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / Modern / 19th Century
ISBN
0307828131
9780307828132
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kmQEy6OHbXsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.