Burnard Creole Gentlemen

The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-70188-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: New World in the Atlantic World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnard, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

1. Problems and Perspectives: A Picture of the Maryland Elite

2. A Gentleman's Competence: The Economic Ambitions of the Maryland Elite

3. "A Species of Capital Attached to Certain Mercantile Houses": Elite Debts and the Significance of Credit

4. Patriarchy and Affection: The Demography and Character of Elite Families

5. Arrows over Time: Elite Inheritance Practices

6. The Rule of Gentlemen: Elite Political Involvement

7. The Development of Provincial Consciousness: The Formation of Elite Identity

8. Conclusion: Toward a History of Elites in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire

Appendix: The Creation of the Elite Sample of Wealthy Marylanders

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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