| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Baltimore History |
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Gentry Maryland Baltimore History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Gentry -- Maryland -- Baltimore County -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Gentry
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| SUBJECT |
Baltimore County (Md.) -- History
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| Subject |
Maryland -- Baltimore County
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813164496 |
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0813164494 |
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