| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) |
| Series |
New World in the Atlantic world |
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New World in the Atlantic world.
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| Contents |
Problems and Perspectives: A Picture of the Maryland Elite -- A Gentleman's Competence: The Economic Ambitions of the Maryland Elite -- "A Species of Capital Attached to Certain Mercantile Houses": Elite Debts and the Significance of Credit -- Patriarchy and Affection: The Demography and Character of Elite Families -- Arrows over Time: Elite Inheritance Practices -- The Rule of Gentlemen: Elite Political Involvement -- The Development of Provincial Consciousness: The Formation of Elite Identity -- Conclusion: Toward a History of Elites in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire -- The Creation of the Elite Sample of Wealthy Marylanders |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Elite (Social sciences) -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century
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Upper class -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century
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Upper class -- Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Upper class -- Maryland -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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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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Economic history
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Social conditions
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Upper class
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Upper class -- Social conditions
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Oberschicht
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Elites.
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Blanken.
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| SUBJECT |
Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081755
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Maryland -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Maryland -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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| Subject |
Maryland
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Maryland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136701818 |
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1136701818 |
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1299977928 |
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9781299977921 |
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9781315023427 |
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1315023423 |
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