Creole Gentlemen

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Creole Gentlemen is written by Trevor Burnard and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136701818 (ISBN 10) and 9781136701818 (ISBN 13).

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.