Creole gentlemen : the Maryland elite, 1691-1776 /
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 innovat...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2002
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| Series: | New World in the Atlantic world
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