An introduction to colonial Maryland, describing the history, economy, and daily life of the colony.

A detailed look at the formation of the colony of Maryland, its government, and its overall history, plus a prologue on world events in 1634 and an epilogue on Maryland today.

An introduction to colonial Maryland, describing the history, economy, and daily life of the colony.

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Provides a history of New York from the arrival of the Dutch to its becoming independent from the British.

Explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state"its special character. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title 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."

The format of this book makes it attractive to both the general reader, interested in the bearing of the colonial period on the development of American law in the early years of the Republic, and the specialist, interested in how these courts worked, who used them and with what results. The main text describes how the unique features of the English admiralty appeared, or failed to appear, in colonial America and came to influence federal admiralty law and practice today.