1st Edition
American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective Lords of Land and Labor
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
Biography
Cathal Smith is a lecturer in English-speaking History and Cultures at Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China.
