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

This book explores the similarities and differences between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords, arguing that they were representative of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism. It demonstrates that they were connected by transnational links between their societies, including transatlantic intellectual cultures, global capitalism, and the mass migration of people from Ireland to the United States.

Format: Hardback
Length: 248 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This groundbreaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the similarities, disparities, and interconnectednesses between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book primarily delves into a comparative and transnational analysis of two antebellum figures: John A. Quitman (1799–1858), a Mississippi planter, and Robert Dillon, Lord Clonbrock (1807–93), an Irish landlord. By placing Quitman and Clonbrock within their broader local, national, and international contexts, American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective argues that the two men represented distinct yet comparable manifestations of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism that were prevalent among the landed elites who dominated the economy, society, and politics in the antebellum American South and in nineteenth-century Ireland. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that American planters and Irish landlords were intricately connected through a multitude of direct and indirect transnational ties, encompassing transatlantic intellectual cultures, mutual participation in global capitalism, and the significant migration of people from Ireland to the United States during the nineteenth century.

This groundbreaking study is the first to comprehensively examine the similarities, disparities, and interconnectednesses between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords.

The book primarily delves into a comparative and transnational analysis of two antebellum figures: John A. Quitman (1799–1858), a Mississippi planter, and Robert Dillon, Lord Clonbrock (1807–93), an Irish landlord.

By placing Quitman and Clonbrock within their broader local, national, and international contexts, American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective argues that the two men represented distinct yet comparable manifestations of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism that were prevalent among the landed elites who dominated the economy, society, and politics in the antebellum American South and in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Furthermore, the study demonstrates that American planters and Irish landlords were intricately connected through a multitude of direct and indirect transnational ties, encompassing transatlantic intellectual cultures, mutual participation in global capitalism, and the significant migration of people from Ireland to the United States during the nineteenth century.

Weight: 516g
Dimension: 157 x 237 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367698515