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The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography

Meyers, Erik, Timothy Henderson, Burke David, and Hazel A. Groman, eds. Wetlands of the Chesapeake. Washington, DC: Environmental Law Institute, 1985.

Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast. 1953; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Notes: Middleton, subsequently a retired Episcopal Canon, for years directed work at Colonial Williamsburg. This defining volume on Chesapeake Maritime History contains valuable environmental references coupled to the region's colonial economy.

Miller, Henry M. "Transforming a 'Splendid and Delightsome Land:' Colonists and Ecological Change in the Chesapeake, 1670 - 1820." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 76 (September 1986): 173-87.

Murdy, Edward O., Ray S. Birdsong, and John A. Musick. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Niemeyer, Lucian. Chesapeake Country. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.

"The Potomac River: An Angler's Delight." Maryland 26 (July/August 1994): 39.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth Century Gardens." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 414-52.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Gardening Books in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 106-10.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Genteel and Necessary Amusements: Public Pleasure Gardens in Eighteenth-Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 118-24.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "The Old Man and the Garden: A Chesapeake Craftsman's Eighteenth-Century Grounds." Maryland Humanities (July/August 1994): 5-8.

Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "Writings about Pleasure and Kitchen Gardening Available in Eighteenth Century Maryland." Journal of Garden History [Great Britain] 9 (July-September 1989): 153-59.

Scott, Jane. Between Ocean and Bay: A Natural History of Delmarva. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1991.

Silberhorn, Gene M. Common Plants of the Mid-Atlantic Coast. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Sipple, William S. Days Afield: Exploring Wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1999.

Tate, Thad W., and David L. Ammerman. The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century : Essays on Anglo-American Society. New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Notes: These essays, while largely anthropological, tell a lot about how the Bay region was settled, the problems with this process, and how European practices moved across the landscape.

Tilp, Frederick. Chesapeake Fact, Fiction & Fun: Pungoteaque, St. Clement, Patapsco, Oxford, Coan. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time: A Brief History of our Geology, Part I: Fathoming the Ocean of Time." Bugeye Times 22 (Fall 1997): 1, 6.

Vogt, Peter R. "Southern Maryland in Deep Time; A Brief History of our Geology, Part II: The Post-Breakup Sediment Wedge." Bugeye Times 23 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.

Warner, James, and Margaret J. White. A Portrait of the Bay Country. Winterville, NC: Creative Resources Systems, 1982.

Wharton, James. The Bounty of the Chesapeake. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1953.
Notes: Wharton's little book is one of the most accessible assemblages of references to Bay resources in the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Williams, John Page. "Stewing about Oysters." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 23 (December 1993): 14-15.

Williams, John Page. "Waterfowl Safari." Chesapeake Bay Magazine 24 (November 1994): 20, 22, 24.

Winterbotham, William. An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical view of the America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies. 1795; reprint, New York: Tiebout and O'Brien, 1796.
Notes: An unusual contemporary view of the U.S. as an infant nation, especially of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the City of Washington. Discusses natural wonders, weather, plants, and makes recommendations to "European settlers".

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