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

by Shearer Davis Bowman

Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.S. and the proprietors of manorial estates in the provinces of Prussian East Elbia. Masters and Lords surveys the economic, social, and political histories of the two classes from the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries respectively, and pays particular attention to planters during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195052811
• ISBN13: 9780195052817
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"