Creole Gentlemen

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

By:

Trevor Burnard

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Paperback / softback

Series:

New World in the Atlantic World

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While much recent scholarship has been examined the colonial Chesapeake's slave culture, little attention has been paid New World in the Atlantic World minated this society. Trevor Burnard has corrected this oversight by undertaking the first systematic study of an agricultural elite in any British colony, examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland during this era. 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. Creole Gentlemen provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of the men who shaped the society of colonial Maryland.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

January 2nd, 2002

Author

Trevor Burnard

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

288

Series

New World in the Atlantic World

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780415931748

Product ID

1728795

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