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From Gentlemen To Townsmen

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Author : Charles G. Steffen
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21

From Gentlemen To Townsmen written by Charles G. Steffen and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with History categories.

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 constituted the bedrock of the upper class throughout Maryland and Virginia. Because most Tidewater aristocrats shunned the northern frontier of Chesapeake society, Baltimore proves an ideal location for exploring the uncertain world of the county gentry. Most of the men who climbed the ladder of economic and political success in Baltimore, hoping to establish dynasties, watched with dismay as their children slipped back down that ladder in the later colonial years. The absence of entrenched oligarchies gave to the upper levels of county society a striking degree of fluidity and impermanence. In chapters dealing with the plantation workforce, the landed estate, the merchant community, and the established church, Steffen demonstrates that this openness pervaded all dimensions of the life of the gentry. Steffen's analysis of the complicated social and political realignments produced by the Revolution provides a fitting conclusion to his study, for in the independence struggle the openness of the gentry was most clearly revealed. In its vivid portrayal of the men and women who comprised the bulk of the gentry, From Gentlemen to Townsmen sheds new light on the complex economic and social life of the Chesapeake.

Creole Gentlemen

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Author : Trevor Burnard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08

Creole Gentlemen written by Trevor Burnard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.

Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study innovatively compares these men to their counterparts elsewhere in the British Empire, including absentee Caribbean landowners and East Indian nabobs, illustrating their place in the Atlantic economic network.

The Gentleman S Magazine

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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Gentleman S Magazine And Historical Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812

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The Gentleman S Magazine Or Monthly Intelligencer

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Author : Edward Cave
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812

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Inaugural Ceremonies In Honour Of The Opening Of Fountain Gardens Paisley

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Author : Paisley (Scotland)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868

Inaugural Ceremonies In Honour Of The Opening Of Fountain Gardens Paisley written by Paisley (Scotland) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Fountain Gardens (Paisley, Scotland) categories.