Format:
Online-Ressource (222 p)
ISBN:
9780813154626
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
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations, Maps, Figures, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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; Epilogue; Appendix 1. Identifying the Elite; Appendix 2. Identifying the Merchants; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813164496
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813154626
Additional Edition:
Print version From Gentlemen to Townsmen : The Gentry of Batimore County Maryland, 1660--1776
Language:
English
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