The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders by Oakes, James - 1982

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good -/very good. xix, [1], 307, [5] p.; 22 cm. White cloth spine with gilt spine title; light blue paper over boards with gilt cover title. Illustrated dust jacket. Top page edges light blue. The author "makes clear that the southern economy was founded on the capacity of the slave system to generate and distribute wealth -- however unequally -- and reveals why that economy was considerably more complex than has been previously suggested by published statistics on the concentration and maldistribution of wealth." -- dust jacket. Book is in Very Good- Condition: occasional underlining and marginal marks in first two chapters; faint red stain on fore-edge of a few pages in the final notes; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: edges rubbed; lightly soiled; sunned along upper edge.