Cathal Smith

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

Lords of Land and Labor

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates historical similarities, differences and links between U.S. planters and Irish landlords, focusing particularly on the nineteenth century. It appeals to scholars and students of the American South, Ireland, slavery, landlordism, rural societies, and the history of capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780367698515
• ISBN-10: 036769851X
• Artikelnr.: 60595950

Autorenporträt

Cathal Smith is a lecturer in English-speaking History and Cultures at Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Comparing and Connecting Lords of Land and Labor 1. Ireland,
the American South, and Rural Subjection, c. 1550-1800 2. The South's
Second Slavery and Ireland's Second Landlordism: John A. Quitman's and Lord
Clonbrock's Economic Attitudes and Behaviors 3. Planter and Landlord
Ideologies: Quitman, Clonbrock, and Paternalism 4. Varieties of Paternalism
in Practice: Labor Relations on the Quitman Plantations and the Clonbrock
Estates 5. "We Have Become a Second Ireland": Landed Elites, Unionism, and
Nationalism in the Antebellum South and Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Conclusion