From Gentlemen to Townsmen: The Gentry of Baltimore County Maryland, 1660-1776 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154626)

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 s

Author: Charles G. Steffen
ISBN-10: 0813154626
ISBN-13: 9780813154626
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d