American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective: Lords of Land and Labor

ISBN-13: 9780367698515 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Cathal Smith

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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