Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815--1861

by Enrico Dal Lago

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Between 1815 and 1861, American slaveholders and southern Italian landowners presided over the economic and social life of two predominantly agricultural regions, the U.S. South and Italy's Mezzogiorno. Enrico Dal Lago ingeniously compares these agrarian elites, demonstrating how the study of each enhances our understanding of the other as well as of their shared nineteenth-century world. Agrarian Elites charts the parallel developments of plantations...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807130877

ISBN13:9780807130872

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:LSU Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.61 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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History Slavery & Emancipation

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