Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776 (New World in the Atlantic World)
Burnard's book makes a useful and worthy contribution. --The Virginia Magazine of History and BiographyBurnard has written a valuable book. He asks significant questions that are sure to elicit provacative responses . In particular, his emphasis on situating Maryland within the entire English imperial context is a welcome approach that will broaden our understanding of the entire system from which British North America withdrew in 1776. -- American Historical Review, February 2003Trevor Burnard breathes new life into the field of Maryland's colonial history by providing us with a superb portrait of its native-born, Creole elite. Deftly uncovering the various layers of reality that gave meaning to their experience, he captures the distinctive duality of their identity, split between an ardent pursuit of British cultural values, especially genteel respectability, and a rapidly growing independence coupled with a commitment to local, provincial interests .A major contribution to the scholarshipon early modern British America. -- Michael J. Rozbicki, author ofTheComplete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy inPlantation AmericaTrevor Burnard breathes new life into the field of Maryland's colonial history by providing us with a superb portrait of its native-born, Creole elite. Deftly uncovering the various layers of reality that gave meaning to their experience, he captures the distinctive duality of their identity, split between an ardent pursuit of British cultural values, especially genteel respectability, and a rapidly growing independence coupled with a commitment to local, provincial interests .A major contribution to the scholarship on early modern British America. -- Michael J. Rozbicki, author ofTheComplete Colonial Gentleman:Trevor Burnard breathes new life into the field of Maryland's colonial history by providing us with a superb portrait of its native-born, Creole elite. Deftly uncovering the various layers of reality that gavemeaning to their experience, he captures the distinctive duality of their identity, split between an ardent pursuit of British cultural values, especially genteel respectability, and a rapidly growing independence coupled with a commitment to local, provincial interests .A major contribution to the scholarship on early modern British America. -- Michael J. Rozbicki, Author ofTheComplete Colonial Gentleman: Cultural Legitimacy inPlantation AmericaThis is a lucid, superbly argued study of the lives of moderately well off gentleman at the edges of the Atlantic plantation world that reconstructs the social and material contexts that anchored the identities and framed the behaviors of Maryland's elite.. -- S. Max Edelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign