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- catalog abstract ""In this reexamination of the South's "peculiar institution," James Oakes breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy and argues convincingly that they were acquisitive entrepreneurs who advocated political democracy - for whites only."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog contributor b10594066.
- catalog coverage "Southern States Social conditions.".
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""In this reexamination of the South's "peculiar institution," James Oakes breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy and argues convincingly that they were acquisitive entrepreneurs who advocated political democracy - for whites only."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The colonial legacy -- Revolutionary slaveholders -- The market culture -- Master-class pluralism -- The slaveholders' pilgrimage -- The convenient sin -- Freedom and bondage -- Plantations, plebeians, and patricians -- Factories in the fields -- Masters of tradition -- The slaveholder's revolution -- Sample of slaveholders from the 1850 census.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 307 p. ;".
- catalog hasVersion "Ruling race.".
- catalog identifier "0393317056 (pbk.)".
- catalog isVersionOf "Reprint of: Oakes, James. Ruling race. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1982. xix, 307 p. ; 22 cm. 0394521633 (OCoLC)7976019".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog relation "Ruling race.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States.".
- catalog subject "305.5/232/097509034 21".
- catalog subject "E441 .O18 1998".
- catalog subject "Slaveholders Southern States.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Southern States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The colonial legacy -- Revolutionary slaveholders -- The market culture -- Master-class pluralism -- The slaveholders' pilgrimage -- The convenient sin -- Freedom and bondage -- Plantations, plebeians, and patricians -- Factories in the fields -- Masters of tradition -- The slaveholder's revolution -- Sample of slaveholders from the 1850 census.".
- catalog title "The ruling race : a history of American slaveholders / by James Oakes.".
- catalog type "text".