Steffen, Charles G.,  1952- <br/><br/>
From gentlemen to townsmen :  the gentry of Batimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776 / 
Charles G. Steffen. 
 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1993. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Baltimore County --  The Open Elite --  The Work Force --  The Landed Estate --  The Merchant Community --  The Established Church --  Baltimore Town --  Appendix 1. Identifying the Elite --  Appendix 2. Identifying the Merchants. 
<br/><br/> 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 scholarly inquiry, but the numerically predominant but largely unknown ""county gentry"" who constitute. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813164496 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Gentry--History.--Maryland--Baltimore County<br/>Baltimore County (Md.)--History.<br/>Gentry--Baltimore County--History.--Maryland<br/>Gentry--Maryland.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Baltimore  History Gentry  Maryland  Baltimore  History 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F187  / .F766 1993