ISBN:
142940549X
,
9781429405492
,
1601296851
,
9781601296856
,
1280440236
,
9781280440236
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 357 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bowman, Shearer Davis Masters & lords
DDC:
305.5232097509034
Keywords:
Plantation owners History
;
19th century
;
Southern States
;
Plantation life History
;
19th century
;
Southern States
;
Nobility History
;
19th century
;
Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
;
Plantation life History 19th century
;
Nobility History 19th century
;
Plantation owners History 19th century
;
Plantage-eigenaren
;
Plantation owners
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes
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Nobility
;
Junkers
;
Plantation life
;
History
;
Southern States History
;
1775-1865
;
Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) History
;
Prussia, East
;
Southern States
;
Southern States History 1775-1865
;
Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) History
;
Southern States
;
Europe ; East Prussia (Poland and Russia)
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Masters and Lords is an ambitious study that presents a comparative view of large planters in the antebellum American South (1820 - 60) and the Junkers of roughly contemporaneous Prussian East Elbia. The author claims that planters and Junkers were comparable because of structural and function analogies between plantations and Ritterguter (knights' estates) both being autocratic political communities and commercial agricultural enterprises. Starting from the structural similarity of political autocracy and economic acquisitiveness on which both the plantations and Ritterguter were based, Bowman shows just how and why his two landed elites of agrarian capitalists are comparable. He then uses the converging lines of comparison to screen out and set in relief the crucial political and cultural differences that are the keys to explaining the contrasting behaviour of these two elites during the major nineteenth century crises that confronted them - the revolutionay crisis of 1848 - 49 in Germany and the secession crisis of 1860 - 61 in the U.S
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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