Masters & Lords

Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters And Prussian Junkers

Bibliographic Data

ID20013680
AuthorsShearer Davis Bowman (corresponding author)
Year1993
Pages357
Publication date1993-04-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMasters & lords (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195052817.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388313775
Open LibraryOL1714167M
ISBN9780195052817
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Autocracy · Democracy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Secession · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · 1775-1865 · 19th century · East (Poland and Russia) · Junkers · Nobility · Plantage-eigenaren · Plantation life · Plantation owners · Prussia · Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) · Social classes · Social Science · Southern states

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