Shearer Davis Bowman

Biographic Data

ID5365769
NAMEShearer Davis Bowman
GIVEN NAMESShearer Davis
FAMILY NAMEBowman
SIGNATUREBOWMAN S D
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Austin
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX0

  • Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861

    Shearer Davis Bowman, Enrico Dal LagoARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast

    Shearer Davis Bowman, James E BagwellARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coast. By James E. Bagwell. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000. xx, 193 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-86554-651-7.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1477–1478, https://doi.org/10.…

  • Different Restorations: Reconstructions and "Wiederaufbau" in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989

    Shearer Davis Bowman, Norbert Finzsch et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000

    Journal Article Different Restorations: Reconstructions and “Wiederaufbau” in Germany and the United States: 1865, 1945, and 1989. Ed. by Norbert Finzsch and Jürgen Martschukat. (Providence: Berghahn, 1996. x, 422 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-57181-086-2.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Is…

  • Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Vol. I: Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850

    Shearer Davis Bowman, John AshworthARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic. Vol. I: Commerce and Compromise, 1820–1850. By John Ashworth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xii, 520 pp. Cloth, $64.95, ISBN 0-521-47487-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-521-47994-0.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American …

  • Masters & Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

    Joseph P Reidy, Shearer Davis BowmanARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Masters & Lords: Mid-19th-century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers. By Shearer Davis Bowman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. xvi, 357 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-505281-1.) Get access Joseph P. Reidy Joseph P. Reidy Howard University, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945…

  • Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U. S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

    Hermann Wellenreuther, Shearer Davis BowmanARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1995

  • Masters and Lords: Mid-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

    Eric Dorn Brose, Eric Brose et al.ARTICLEGerman Studies Review1995

  • Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

    Jeannie Oakes, James Oakes et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1995

  • Masters & Lords: Mid-19th Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers

    Harold D Woodman, Shearer Davis BowmanARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

    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. Start…

  • Planters, Junkers, and Pomeschiki

    George M Fredrickson, Peter Kolchin et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1994

    Historians of the United States are becoming increasingly comparative (or at least international) in their approaches to subjects. Especially in social, cultural, and intellectual history, it is now commonplace to refer to analogous developments elsewhere in the world and to combat exaggerated notions of American exceptionalism by indicating that what happened here was part of a transnational pattern of development. But cross-cultural comparative…

  • Masters & Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters And Prussian Junkers

    Shearer Davis BowmanBOOKMasters & lords1993

    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. Start…

  • The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South

    Shearer Davis Bowman, James Skinner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Autobiography of Henry Merrell: Industrial Missionary to the South. Ed. by James L. Skinner III. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xxxvi + 465 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8203-1253-3.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 657–658, https://do…

  • Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

    Shearer Davis Bowman, Randall M Miller et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1991

  • George Wythe Randolph and the Confederate Elite

    Shearer Davis Bowman, George Green ShackelfordARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990

  • Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform

    Shearer Davis Bowman, William M MathewARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform. By William M. Mathew. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988. xiv + 286 pp. $35.00.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 302–303, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • The Abolition of Slavery in the Americas; the U.S., the Caribbean, Brazil and Mexico

    Open AccessShearer Davis Bowman, Pieter Emmer et al.ARTICLEItinerario1988References: 1

    In 1888 Brazil abolished slavery as the last country in the Americas to do away with the ‘peculiar institution’. The following four essays study the widely varying impact of abolition on the economies and social structures of the ex-slave societies

  • Southern Emancipator: Moncure Conway, the American Years, 1832-1865

    Shearer Davis Bowman, John d'EntremontARTICLEJournal of American History1988

    Journal Article Southern Emancipator: Moncure Conway, the American Years, 1832–1863. By John d'Entremont. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv + 282 pp. $29.95.) Get access Shearer Davis Bowman Shearer Davis Bowman University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 2, September 1988, Pages 617–618, https://doi.org/10.2307/1887921 Published: 01…