{"product_id":"the-ruling-race-a-history-of-american-slaveholders-0393317056","title":"The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393317056\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oakes, James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51856442065184,"sku":"NEW0393317056","price":30.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71nqG8pKQXL.jpg?v=1781549667","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-ruling-race-a-history-of-american-slaveholders-0393317056","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}