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.
| ISBN | 9780393317053 |
| Autor(a) | Oakes, James |
| Editora | Airphoto International Ltd. |
| Ano de edição | 1998 |
| Páginas | 334 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |