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  • Freedom National

    The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

    de James Oakes ...
    **Winner of the Lincoln Prize"Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books**Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Ruling Race

    de James Oakes ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Slavery And Freedom

    An Interpretation of the Old South

    de James Oakes ...
    This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Crooked Path to Abolition

    Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

    de James Oakes ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln PrizeAn award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.**The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Radical and the Republican

    Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

    de James Oakes ...
    "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker“My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Scorpion's Sting

    Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

    de James Oakes ...
    A Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionThe image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and inducing the social crisis in which the peculiar institution ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Packing Room

    de James Oakes ...
    THE PACKING ROOM is a story about four working class people and their manager who’ve suffered tragedies which have hindered them and changed the course of their lives.Still plagued with domestic, social and financial problems, their friendship wanes as they desperately fight for self- preservation at all costs.Looking deep into their souls as to how low they’ve sunk for survival, character changes ... Leer más

    $2.67 USD

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    Freedom National

    The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

    de James Oakes ...
    Narrado por Sean Pratt ...

    Completo

    18 hora 54 minutos

    The consensus view of the Civil War—that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory—dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle.In the disloyal South the federal ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    The Crooked Path to Abolition

    Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

    de James Oakes ...
    Narrado por Bob Souer ...

    Completo

    6 hora 38 minutos

    An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Beyond Freedom

    Disrupting the History of Emancipation

    de Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, James Oakes0, Susan Eva O'Donovan1, Hannah Rosen2, Brenda Stevenson3, Richard S. Newman4 ...
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    This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • Reading Southern History

    Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations

    de John White, Junius P. Rodriguez, Kari A. Frederickson, Anthony Gene Carey, Joe W. Trotter, John Shelton Reed, Daniel Joseph Singal, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Judith N. McArthur, Jean H. Baker, James Oakes, Anastatia Sims, Ted Ownby, Bruce Clayton, John Herbert Roper, David S. Heidler, Ph.D., Dr. Jeanne T. Heidler, Ph.D. ...
    This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts of important scholars to discuss and define the South's distinctiveness. The volume includes 18 chapters on ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century

    de Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf, Don H. Doyle, Sally Hadden, Sonya Ramsey, Jennie Goloboy, Bruce W. Eelman, Amanda R. Mushal, Frank Towers, James Oakes, John G. Deal ...
    Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD