The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Douglass, John E. "Between Pettifoggers and Professionals: Pleaders and Practitioners and the Beginnings of the Legal Profession in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1731." American Journal of Legal History 39 (July 1995): 359-84.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Eldridge, Larry D. The Growth of Free Speech in Early America: The Seventeenth Century. Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1990.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Everstine, Carl N. "Maryland's Toleration Act: An Appraisal." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Summer 1984): 99-116.
Notes: Considered from afar, Maryland's Toleration Act (1649) reinforces the nation's long tradition of religious toleration and moderation; or does it? After examining the wording of the act, and the history of toleration prior to 1649, the author points out that the act was repealed in 1654, and, while the repeal was itself repealed soon after, toleration would continue in force only until 1696, when the Church of England was established as the sole religious establishment in the Province. Caught in the rivalry between the resurgent Puritans and the Catholics at mid-century, religious toleration was on shaky grounds from the beginning. With the ascendancy of the Anglican Church in 1696, things grew worse for Catholics, and more legislation was adopted in the ensuing years restricting their ability to practice their religion publicly. Religious toleration for Christians was re-introduced in the state Constitution of 1776 and expanded to include Jews fifty years later.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. Advice and Ascent: The Development of the Maryland Assembly, 1635-1689. Ph.D. diss., Georgetown University, 1976.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. Advice and Ascent: The Development of the Maryland General Assembly, 1635-1689. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Geiger, Marilyn L. The Administration of Justice in Colonial Maryland. New York: Garland Publishers, 1987.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Gleissner, Richard A. "The Revolutionary Settlement of 1691 in Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 66 (1971): 405-419.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "Elections and Voting in Early Colonial Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 77 (Fall 1982): 238-65.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "'God's Candle' Within Government: Quakers and Politics in Early Maryland." William and Mary Quarterly 3d series, 39 (October 1982): 628-54.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Jordan, David W. "John Coode, Perennial Rebel." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 1-28.
Notes: A biography of John Coode, for whom any cause became an unrestrained assault on his opponents, and who became a Protestant scourge to the Catholic establishment in the late seventeenth century. His contradictory career is chronicled and typified by his perennial resistance to authority.
Jordan, David W. "Maryland's Privy Council, 1637-1715." In Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 65-87. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Jordan, David W. "Political Stability and the Emergence of a Native Elite in Maryland." In The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays in Anglo-American Society. Edited by Thad W. Tate and David L. Ammerman, 243-73. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Krugler, John D. "'Our Trusty and Wellbeloved Councillor:' The Parliamentary Career of Sir George Calvert, 1609-24." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Winter 1977): 470-91.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore City
Krugler, John D. "Sir George Calvert's Resignation as Secretary of State and the Founding of Maryland." Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (1973): 239-254.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Baltimore City
Man, Yunlong. English Colonization and the Formation of Anglo-American Polities, 1601-1664. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1994.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Margolin, Samuel G. Lawlessness on the Maritime Frontier of the Greater Chesapeake, 1650-1750. Ph.D. diss., College of William and Mary, 1992.
Categories: Maritime, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Menard, Russell R. "'Maryland's 'Time of Troubles:' Sources of Political Disorder in Early St. Mary's." Maryland Historical Magazine 76 (Summer 1981): 124-40.
Notes: An excellent analysis of the difficulty faced by the Calverts in establishing a stable political system in Maryland in the first several decades of settlement. Confronted with William Claiborne's commercial outpost on Kent Island, and hostility from other Virginians and their supporters in London, not to mention Richard Ingle's almost fatal attack on the colony in the mid-1640s, Lord Baltimore used his considerable influence and political skill to protect his interests. Within the colony, the ostensible Catholic hegemony was rent by a dispute between the Proprietor and the Jesuits over their influence in secular affairs, and his goal of establishing a hierarchical manorial political system was undermined by the ease with which indentured servants could obtain land and influence.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Owen, David R., and Michael C. Tolley. Courts of Admiralty in Colonial America: The Maryland Experience, 1634-1776. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1995.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Paape, Karina. "Providence: A Case Study in Probate Manipulation, 1670-79." Maryland Historical Magazine 94 (Spring 1999): 64-87.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century
Papenfuse, Edward C. An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649: An Interpretation and Tribute to the Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1999.
Categories: Politics and Law, Religion, Seventeenth Century
Papenfuse, Edward C. "Remarks on the History of the Maryland Legislature, 1643-1694." Chronicles of St. Mary's 32 (May 1984): 149-155.
Categories: Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County
Papenfuse, Edward C. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978 and 1985.
Notes: This ambitious work reconstructs with admirable detail the biographies of the 1,445 legislators who served between 1635 and 1789. In addition to collecting the normal information expected in this type of work, the authors searched for such important additional factors as family background, marital connections, public and private career, as well as wealth during one's lifetime at death. Considering that family ties were often an important aspect of political advancement in the colonial era, this information is especially useful. The full potential of this approach can be seen in the entry for Samuel Chase (Vol. I, pp. 214-216), although most biographies are not as complete, especially for those who were in the legislature in the earlier period.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Papenfuse, Edward C., Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, and Gregory A. Stiverson. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Notes: Studies in Maryland History and Culure.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Papenfuse, Edward C., David W. Jordan, Carol P. Tilles, and Jane W. McWilliams. Directory of Maryland Legislators 1635-1789. Annapolis: Maryland Bicentennial Commission, 1974.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century
Price, Jacob M. "The Maryland Bank Stock Case: British-American Financial and Political Relations Before and After the American Revolution." In Law, Society, and Politics in Early Maryland. Edited by Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, and Edward C. Papenfuse, 3-40. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Politics and Law, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century