TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steffen,Charles G.
TI  - From gentlemen to townsmen: the gentry of Batimore County, Maryland, 1660-1776 
SN  - 9780813164496
AV  - F187 .F766 1993
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Gentry
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Baltimore County
KW  - History
KW  - Baltimore County (Md.)
KW  - Baltimore
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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