Maryland: A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980

by Brugger, Robert J.; Requardt, Gynthia Horsburgh; Cottom, Robert I.; Hayward, Mary Ellen

• ISBN13: 9780801854651
• ISBN10: 0801854652
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-08-28
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage--from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace--is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."

Author Biography

Robert J. Brugger has taught at the universities of Maryland and Virginia and in 1978-79 was an Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard. His previous books include Beverly Tucker: Heart over Head in the Old South and Our Selves/Our Past: Psychological Approaches to American History, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
1. From Province to Colony (1634-1689)	3	(38)
2. Tobacco Coast (1690-1760)	41	(43)
3. Revolutionary Persuasion (1730-1781)	84	(48)
4. Realizing the New Republic (1781-1815)	132	(54)
5. Suspended between Memory and Hope (1816-1849)	186	(62)
6. A House Divided (1850-1865)	248	(58)
7. Gilded Age, Humble Lives (1865-1895)	306	(57)
8. Non-Pilgrim's Progress (1876-1912)	363	(64)
9. Searching for the Middle in Modern America (1904-1928)	427	(63)
10. Growing Up (1924-1945)	490	(62)
11. "Land of Pleasant Living" (1946-1966)	552	(66)
12. Renaissance: Survival of a Sensibility (1967-1980)	618	(55)
Epilogue	673	(6)
NOTES	679	(32)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY	711	(60)
SELECTED MAPS, FIGURES, AND TABLES	771	(28)
CHRONOLOGY	799	(18)
INDEX	817