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Bowman, Shearer Davis was born on July 9, 1949 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Shearer Calvin and Carolyn Allen (Davis) Bowman.
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Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
(Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of ...)
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 secession crisis of 1860-61 and to Junkers during the revolutionary crisis of 1848-49. In the process, Bowman grapples with such ambiguous and contentious concepts as capitalism, conservatism, and paternalism. Despite very different labor systems, antebellum planters and contemporaneous Junkers alike presided over landed estates that functioned as both autocratic political communities and agricultural enterprises exporting valuable commodities to industrializing England. This book also highlights important geographic, demographic, and political contrasts between the South and East Elbia as regional societies. Bowman concludes that the crucial distinction between the two landed elites is to be found in the Junkers' militarist and estatist monarchism versus the planters' libertarian but racist republicanism.
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Shearer Davis Bowman
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Shearer Davis Bowman, American Historian, educator. President school board All Saints Episcopal Day School, Austin, 1989-1990, board of trustees Samaritan Counseling Center, Austin, 1992; active elder on sessionFirst President Church, Austin, 1989-1991, 93-95. Member Southern History Association (life), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.
Education
Bachelor, University of Virginia, 1971; Master of Arts, University of California, 1976; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, 1986.
Career
Visiting assistant professor, Hampden-Sydney (Virginia) College, 1981-1984; assistant professor, Hampden-Sydney (Virginia) College, 1984-1986; assistant professor, University Texas, Austin, 1986-1993; associate professor, University Texas, Austin, since 1993; associate chair department history, University Texas, Austin, 1995-1998. Member panel of experts United States Information Agency, Washington, 1991-1992.
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Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
(Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of ...)
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Masters and Lords: Mid-19th-Century U.S. Planters and Prussian Junkers
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President school board All Saints Episcopal Day School, Austin, 1989-1990, board of trustees Samaritan Counseling Center, Austin, 1992. Active elder on sessionFirst President Church, Austin, 1989-1991, 93-95. Member Southern History Association (life), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta.
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Married Norma Lee Willey, August 12, 1972. Children: Kate, Will.
