Trevor Burnard

Creole Gentlemen (eBook, ePUB)

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136701887
• Artikelnr.: 39703415

Autorenporträt

Trevor Burnard is a Reader in Early American History at Brunel University in England.

Inhaltsangabe

List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgments1. Problems and Perspectives: A Picture
of the Maryland Elite2. A Gentleman's Competence: The Economic Ambitions of
the Maryland Elite3. A Species of Capital Attached to Certain Mercantile
Houses: Elite Debts and the Significance of Credit4. Patriarchy and
Affection: The Demography and Character of Elite Families5. Arrows over
Time: Elite Inheritance Practices6. The Rule of Gentlemen: Elite Political
Involvement7. The Development of Provincial Consciousness: The Formation of
Elite Identity8. Conclusion: Toward a History of Elites in the
Eighteenth-Century British EmpireAppendix: The Creation of the Elite Sample
of Wealthy MarylandersIndex