Creole Gentlemen e-bog
348,37 DKK
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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 absente...
E-bog
348,37 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
8 oktober 2013
Længde
288 sider
Genrer
1KBBFM
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781136701818
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.