Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian JunkersOxford University Press, 29.04.1993 г. - 384 страници Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.S. and the proprietors of manorial estates in the provinces of Prussian East Elbia. Masters and Lords surveys the economic, social, and political histories of the two classes from the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries respectively, and pays particular attention to planters during the secession crisis of 1860-61 and to Junkers during the revolutionary crisis of 1848-49. In the process, Bowman grapples with such ambiguous and contentious concepts as capitalism, conservatism, and paternalism. Despite very different labor systems, antebellum planters and contemporaneous Junkers alike presided over landed estates that functioned as both autocratic political communities and agricultural enterprises exporting valuable commodities to industrializing England. This book also highlights important geographic, demographic, and political contrasts between the South and East Elbia as regional societies. Bowman concludes that the crucial distinction between the two landed elites is to be found in the Junkers' militarist and estatist monarchism versus the planters' libertarian but racist republicanism. |
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... U.S. South , 1860-1900 , " Itinerario 12 , no . 2 ( 1988 ) . Two essays appeared in volumes of conference ... United States and Europe . If my sanity and humanity have survived the lengthy and frequently frustrat- ing process of ...
... U.S. South , 1860-1900 , " Itinerario 12 , no . 2 ( 1988 ) . Two essays appeared in volumes of conference ... United States and Europe . If my sanity and humanity have survived the lengthy and frequently frustrat- ing process of ...
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... U.S. South and the Junker estate owners of Prussian East Elbia during roughly the same era . Indeed , mid- nineteenth - century planters and Junkers constituted perhaps the most powerful re- gional landed elites in the history of the ...
... U.S. South and the Junker estate owners of Prussian East Elbia during roughly the same era . Indeed , mid- nineteenth - century planters and Junkers constituted perhaps the most powerful re- gional landed elites in the history of the ...
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... states of the U.S. South had no hereditary monarchy , no large standing army , and no legacy of serfdom . Indeed , the differences between the South and East Elbia as historical milieus were of such magnitude that the rationale for ...
... states of the U.S. South had no hereditary monarchy , no large standing army , and no legacy of serfdom . Indeed , the differences between the South and East Elbia as historical milieus were of such magnitude that the rationale for ...
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Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers Shearer Davis Bowman ... United States with the same names and borders they had in 1860 — with the exception of ... South . " But our chronological focus for the South is on the four ...
Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers Shearer Davis Bowman ... United States with the same names and borders they had in 1860 — with the exception of ... South . " But our chronological focus for the South is on the four ...
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... South , and Georgia — had participated in the creation of the U.S. Republic in the 1770s and 1780s . Four more ... United States during the thirties and forties . During the secession crisis of 1860—61 the Border South slave states of ...
... South , and Georgia — had participated in the creation of the U.S. Republic in the 1770s and 1780s . Four more ... United States during the thirties and forties . During the secession crisis of 1860—61 the Border South slave states of ...
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2 Agrarian Entrepreneurs | 42 |
3 Contentious Concepts | 79 |
4 Planter Republicanism versus Junker Monarchism | 112 |
5 Patriarchy and Paternalism | 162 |
6 Planter and Junker Conservatism | 184 |
Epilogue | 217 |
Notes | 225 |
Index | 349 |
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