From Gentlemen to Townsmen : The Gentry of Baltimore County Maryland, 1660-1776 /

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 acc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steffen, Charles G., 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gentry.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Gentry > Maryland > Baltimore County > History.
Maryland > Baltimore County.
Baltimore County (Md.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780813164496

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