Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980Maryland: 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." |
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Contents
From Province to Colony 16341689 | 3 |
Tobacco Coast 16901760 | 41 |
Revolutionary Persuasion 17301781 | 84 |
Realizing the New Republic 17811815 | 132 |
Suspended between Memory and Hope 18161849 | 186 |
A House Divided 18501865 | 248 |
Gilded Age Humble Lives 18651895 | 306 |
NonPilgrims Progress 18761912 | 363 |
Searching for the Middle in Modern America 19041928 | 427 |
Growing Up 19241945 | 490 |
Land of Pleasant Living 19461966 | 552 |
Survival of a Sensibility 19671980 | 618 |
Epilogue | 673 |
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| Title | Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980 Johns Hopkins paperbacks Maryland Paperback Bookshelf |
| Author | Robert J. Brugger |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | JHU Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0801854652, 9780801854651 |
| Length | 864 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / General History / United States / General History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Travel / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV) |
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