The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Locke, Diana. Oyster Fisheries Management of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Ph.D. diss., Walden University, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Politics and Law, Chesapeake Region
Mason, Keith. "Localism, Evangelicalism, and Loyalism: The Sources of Oppression in the Revolutionary Chesapeake." Journal of Southern History 56 (February 1990): 23-54.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Nash, Gary B. "Revolution on the Chesapeake." Reviews in American History 2 (September 1974): 373-78.
Smith, W. Wayne. Anti-Jacksonian Politics Along the Chesapeake. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, College Park, 1967.
Smith, W. Wayne. "Jacksonian Democracy on the Chesapeake: Class, Kinship and Politics." Maryland Historical Magazine 63 (1968): 55-67.
Smith, W. Wayne. "Jacksonian Democracy on the Chesapeake: The Political Institutions." Maryland Historical Magazine 62 (1967): 381-393.
Risjord, Norman K. Chesapeake Politics 1781-1800. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Notes: This is a richly detailed study of the development of political parties in the three states - Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina - which comprise the Chesapeake region. Using cluster-bloc analysis where possible, especially for Maryland, and more traditional sources where the roll-calls are too scarce, this study focuses on the growth of partisanship in the state legislatures. Sharing the post-war problems of debt, depression, social unrest, as well as reacting to national issues, such as the structure of the central government, western lands, the location of the capital, neutrality, the Jay Treaty, the Quasi-War with France, the Alien and Sedition Acts, as well as other issues, each state responded with subtle differences. Overall, however, these experiences strengthened party identification and organization, so that by the election of 1800 a major party competition existed.
Categories: County and Local History, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Ackerman, Eric G. "Economic Means Index: A Measure of Social Status in the Chesapeake, 1690-1815." Historical Archaeology 25 (1991): 26-36.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Brugger, Robert J. Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Notes: Brugger's comprehensive social and cultural history of Maryland is the fruit of the decision by the Maryland Historical Society to commission a new state history in observance of Maryland's 350th anniversary. Brugger takes as his central theme that Maryland's distinction historically was that it represented a middle way-between North and State, slave and free, traditional and modern, rural/suburban/urban. The book considers the interaction of major political, social, and cultural developments. It includes a valuable bibliographical essay; a chronology of events; sets of maps, tables, and figures; and extensive illustrations.
Categories: General, County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Burnard, Trevor. "A Tangled Cousinry? Associational Networks of the Maryland Elite, 1691-1776." Journal of Southern History 61 (February 1995): 17-44.
Notes: Burnard examines evidence regarding the status of wealthy merchants and planters of eighteenth-century Maryland Chesapeake society, including wills, marriage records, and loans, to determine whether "inward-looking and restrictive" or "outward-looking and expansive" orientations applied to the group. He acknowledges that the evidence reveals close patterns of kinship, traditionally typical of rural areas, but concludes that the Maryland gentry of the era transcended family ties, constructing relationships with a relatively wide social group, and therefore should be characterized as "outward-looking, expansive, and inclusive."
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green. "Emigration and the Standard of Living: The Seventeenth Century Chesapeake." Journal of Economic History 52 (June 1992): 271-91.
Notes: Carr contends that the experience of moving from England to the Chesapeake region of America in the seventeenth century was not simply a change of homeland, but a drastic change in lifestyle. She evaluates such factors as marriage, birth rates, life expectancy, diet, housing, working conditions and social freedoms for the English who chose to emigrate to America in that first century. Carr argues that, with the exception of diet, the standard of living may have been higher had the colonists remained in England, but in terms of economic independence and some degree of political participation, their prospects in the New World were superior.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green, Phillip D. Morgan, and Jean B. Russo, eds. Colonial Chesapeake Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. "The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake." William and Mary Quarterly 45 (January 1988): 135-59.
Notes: Carr and Walsh make detailed use of probate records from seventeenth and eighteenth century Maryland to argue that the period in Chesapeake area history represented a shift from an early emphasis upon material necessities to an improved standard of living marked by "gentility." The authors contend that this change reached across class lines and helped to fuel, rather than check, the productive economy of the colony. The article includes extensive tables and graphs of evidence regarding consumer items for several Maryland and Virginia counties.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, St. Mary's County, Somerset County, Chesapeake Region, Southern Maryland, Eastern Shore
D'Agostino, Mary Ellin. Household Stuffe: Material Culture and Identity in the Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Colonial World. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Davis, Lynn. "Peopling the Peninsula." Heartland of Del-Mar-Va 12 (Sunshine 1989): 26-30.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Davis, P. Susan. "The Land of Pleasant Living." Maryland 16 (Summer 1984): 6-11.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Dent, Richard J. "Social Change and 18th Century Tidewater Maryland: Reflections in the Archaeological Record of Annapolis." Maryland Archeology 26 (March and September 1990): 54-68.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Region
Eberhardt, Lynne A. "Passion and Propriety: Tidewater Marriages in the Colonial Chesapeake." Maryland Historical Magazine 93 (Fall 1998): 324-47.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Eden, Trudy Ann. 'Makes Like, Makes Unlike': Food, Health, and Identity in the Early Chesapeake. Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Ellis, Carolyn. Fisher Folk: Two Communities on the Chesapeake Bay. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Notes: A sociological case study of two traditional water-economy Chesapeake Bay communities, one in tidewater Virginia and the other on the islands of Maryland, both assigned pseudonyms in social science convention. Ellis contends that these isolated settlements retain distinctive elements of traditional culture, even as they increasingly are drawn into contact with and impacted by outside forces. Based on extensive field research conducted in the 1970s and early 1980s, this study examines family and kin, work, social organization, the role of religion, and mechanisms of social control. Ellis concludes with consideration of the prospects for the future in terms of preservation or change for traditional Chesapeake area communities.
Categories: County and Local History, Maritime, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Ernst, Joseph A., and H. Roy. Merrens. "'Camden's Turrets Pierce the Skies!': the Urban Process in the Southern Colonies During the Eighteenth Century." William and Mary Quarterly 30 (1973): 549-574.
Notes: The authors advance the case that the conventional view that Southern colonies were devoid of urbanization derives from a confusion of form and function, as well as size and significance. The article presents case studies of Camden, South Carolina, and Cross Creek, North Carolina, as well as examples from Virginia and Maryland, to demonstrate that towns often played an important urban function in the economy of the Southern colonies, though their examples are hardly convincing in contradicting the prevailing interpretation.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Estes, Natalie Schilling. The Linguistic and Socio-linguistic Status of /AY/ in Outer Banks English. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Fausz, J. Frederick. "Present at the 'Creation': The Chesapeake World that Greeted the Maryland Colonists." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984): 7-20.
Notes: Fausz examines relations between Europeans (especially the English of Maryland and Virginia) and Native Americans of the Chesapeake region in the decade immediately preceding the settlement of the Maryland colony at St. Mary's in 1634. He argues that the interaction between Englishmen and Native Americans provided the basis for tobacco cultivation and the beaver fur trade. Both paved the way for successful adaption of the early English settlers to new American conditions.
Categories: County and Local History, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, St. Mary's County, Chesapeake Region
Fausz, J. Frederick. "'The Seventeenth-Century Experience: An Introduction." Maryland Historical Magazine 79 (Spring 1984); 3-6.
Notes: Fausz's introduction to a special issue of the <em>Maryland Historical Magazine</em> on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Maryland colony notes that there has been a renaissance in seventeenth-century Chesapeake studies, notable for the range of topics about early colonial life being investigated. The unique quality of seventeenth-century experience consisted in the ambivalence created by heritage and ties to the homeland culture of England, yet the significant adaptation required to New World conditions. The introduction sets the stage for articles by Lois Green Carr on political developments, John D. Kruger on religion, and Russell R. Menard on social and economic trends.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century, Chesapeake Region
Geiser, Karl Frederick. Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1900.
Categories: County and Local History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region