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Author : Richard George Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719004599
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Merchants written by Richard George Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip N. Racine
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572336161
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Merchants written by Philip N. Racine and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentlemen Merchants preserves the correspondence between members of two wealthy slaveholding merchant families, the Gourdins and the Youngs in nineteenth-century Charleston, South Carolina. Because the correspondence lasts over forty years, the letters provide a significant record of historical Southern themes. Plantation-born urban dwellers, the correspondents comment deeply and widely on their own family history, religion in the South, slavery and race, business, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Gentlemen Merchants offers a fresh perspective on the Old South's elite slaveholders from the vantage point of commercial offices, docks, and wharves instead of the rural plantation. These prominent Charleston families grew wealthy through commercial trading of Sea Island and upland cotton, rice, and wine. Charleston emerges as a main character in these letters as the discrepancy between the wealthy upper class and working-class immigrants becomes more pronounced. There are also letters from family members who traveled widely for business and pleasure. They recount travel adventures in England and France, on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, and at Niagara Falls. The Gourdins and Youngs lived in material comfort for over three decades and fought to preserve their way of life, the basis of which was made possible by slavery. The family was one shaped by privilege and destroyed by war. When the world changed as a result of the Civil War, the family members were left penniless. It is unusual that both sides of this correspondence have survived, making this collection an extraordinary primary source for historical research. Historically minded general readers will also enjoy the perspective on the urban South that these letters provide. Philip N. Racine published numerous articles and books about southern history, including Piedmont Farmer. He is currently the William R. Kenan Professor of History at Wofford College, where he has taught since 1969.
Author : Richard George Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719004599
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Merchants written by Richard George Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781404739512
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1689 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Letter concerning Trade, from several Scots-gentlemen that are merchants in England, to their country-men that are merchants in Scotland. By D. Defoe? written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1707 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Increase Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Countrey Adjacent written by Increase Mather and published by . This book was released on 1689 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136701885
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Creole Gentlemen written by Trevor Burnard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Charles G. Steffen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813186560
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Gentlemen to Townsmen written by Charles G. Steffen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 constituted the bedrock of the upper class throughout Maryland and Virginia. Because most Tidewater aristocrats shunned the northern frontier of Chesapeake society, Baltimore proves an ideal location for exploring the uncertain world of the county gentry. Most of the men who climbed the ladder of economic and political success in Baltimore, hoping to establish dynasties, watched with dismay as their children slipped back down that ladder in the later colonial years. The absence of entrenched oligarchies gave to the upper levels of county society a striking degree of fluidity and impermanence. In chapters dealing with the plantation workforce, the landed estate, the merchant community, and the established church, Steffen demonstrates that this openness pervaded all dimensions of the life of the gentry. Steffen's analysis of the complicated social and political realignments produced by the Revolution provides a fitting conclusion to his study, for in the independence struggle the openness of the gentry was most clearly revealed. In its vivid portrayal of the men and women who comprised the bulk of the gentry, From Gentlemen to Townsmen sheds new light on the complex economic and social life of the Chesapeake.
Author : Tom Cutterham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210101
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gentlemen Revolutionaries written by Tom Cutterham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen—the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite—worked hard to maintain their positions of power. Gentlemen Revolutionaries shows how their struggles over status, hierarchy, property, and control shaped the ideologies and institutions of the fledgling nation. Tom Cutterham examines how, facing pressure from populist movements as well as the threat of foreign empires, these gentlemen argued among themselves to find new ways of justifying economic and political inequality in a republican society. At the heart of their ideology was a regime of property and contract rights derived from the norms of international commerce and eighteenth-century jurisprudence. But these gentlemen were not concerned with property alone. They also sought personal prestige and cultural preeminence. Cutterham describes how, painting the egalitarian freedom of the republic's "lower sort" as dangerous licentiousness, they constructed a vision of proper social order around their own fantasies of power and justice. In pamphlets, speeches, letters, and poetry, they argued that the survival of the republican experiment in the United States depended on the leadership of worthy gentlemen and the obedience of everyone else. Lively and elegantly written, Gentlemen Revolutionaries demonstrates how these elites, far from giving up their attachment to gentility and privilege, recast the new republic in their own image.
Author : Richard Grassby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English Gentleman in Trade written by Richard Grassby and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a pre-industrial economy dominated by small family firms, economic growth could not have occurred without the skill, persistence, and initiative of individual businessmen like Sir Dudley North. North was not only a celebrated merchant and economist, but an important and controversial servant of Charles II and James II. Richard Grassby exploits the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to establish how North made a fortune in the Levant commodity trade and through usury. He explores his character, beliefs, and intentions, and the diverse technical and personal reasons for his success. His works, which are here published for the first time, reveal the breadth of his intellectual interests.
