Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0813118298
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0813154626
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0813164494
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9780813118291
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9780813154626
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9780813164496
Content:
Economic and social life in the upper Chesapeake during the colonial period diverged from that in southern Maryland and Tidewater Virginia despite similar economic bases. Charles Steffen's book offers a fresh interpretation of the economic elite of Baltimore County and challenges the widely accepted view that the life of this privileged class was characterized by permanence, stability, and continuity. The subjects of this study are not the tiny knot of Tidewater aristocrats who have dominated scholarly inquiry, but the numerically predominant but largely unknown ""county gentry"" who constitute
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Baltimore County -- 2. The Open Elite -- 3. The Work Force -- 4. The Landed Estate -- 5. The Merchant Community -- 6. The Established Church -- 7. Baltimore Town -- Appendix 1. Identifying the Elite -- Appendix 2. Identifying the Merchants.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Steffen, Charles G From Gentlemen to Townsmen : The Gentry of Batimore County Maryland, 1660--1776 Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 ISBN 9780813154626
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