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Book Queen Anne s County  Maryland  Its Early History and Development

Download or read book Queen Anne s County Maryland Its Early History and Development written by Frederic Emory and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queen Anne s County  Maryland

Download or read book Queen Anne s County Maryland written by Frederic Emory and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book QUEEN ANNE S COUNTY  MARYLAND ITS EARLY HISTORY

Download or read book QUEEN ANNE S COUNTY MARYLAND ITS EARLY HISTORY written by FREDERIC. EMORY and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Master Architects

Download or read book The Master Architects written by Richard Hume Werking and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twenty years before World War I, several key figures worked to improve the foreign service and to reform its appointment system. Richard Hume Werking explores both the methods and the motives of these "master architects." Unlike other scholars, Werking finds that the foundations and general structure of the United States foreign service emerged before World War I. He sees its development as prompted less by foreign crises than by economic conditions—particularly the need to stimulate export trade. Indispensable to its growth were the dedicated efforts of bureaucrats who were loyal to national interests but wished the opportunity to do interesting work and to receive recognition when they did it well.

Book Maryland  the Federalist Years

Download or read book Maryland the Federalist Years written by L. Marx Renzulli and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of the Federalist Party in Maryland is detailed in this solid, traditional, narrative. Carefully documented, it examines the nature and voting patterns of the Federalist electorate in Maryland during the pre-Jacksonian era.

Book Queen Anne s County

Download or read book Queen Anne s County written by Maryland Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William H  Emory

Download or read book William H Emory written by L. David Norris and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier and explorer William H. Emory traveled the length and breadth of the United States and participated in some of the most significant events of the nineteenth century. This first complete biography of Emory offers new insights into an often-overlooked military figure and provides an important view of an expanding America. Born in Maryland in 1811, Emory was a West Point graduate who resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and join the newly formed Corps of Topographical Engineers. After working along the Canadian boundary, he was selected to accompany Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West in their trek to California in 1846, and his map from that expedition helped guide Forty-Niners bound for the goldfields. Emory worked for nine years on the new border between the United States and Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase and was responsible for the survey and marking of the boundary. When the Civil War broke out, Emory refused a commission in the Confederate Army, instead commanding a regiment defending Washington, D.C. Later he saw action at Manassas, in the Red River campaign, and in the Shenandoah Valley, where he served under Phil Sheridan. This biography draws on Emory’s personal papers to reveal other significant episodes of his life. While commanding a cavalry unit in Indian Territory, he was the only officer to bring an entire command out of insurrectionary territory. In hostile action of a different kind, he was a major witness in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and offered testimony that helped save the president. William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist is an important resource for scholars of western expansion and the Civil War. More than that, it is a rousing story of an unsung but distinguished hero of his time.

Book Queen Anne s County  Maryland  Land Records

Download or read book Queen Anne s County Maryland Land Records written by R. Bernice Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series contains abstracts of Queen Anne's County, Maryland deeds and land commissions. Entries contain grantor, grantee, tract name, and sometimes give spouse's name, neighbors, former owners, price, or acreage. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

Book Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette  1727 1839

Download or read book Marriages and Deaths from the Maryland Gazette 1727 1839 written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1973 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Maryland Gazette" was published in Annapolis between the years 1727 and 1839. From its infancy it carried occasional references to marriages and deaths of Maryland citizens. Drawing on this unique resource, the text of Mr. Barnes' book consists of abstracts of approximately 3,000 marriages and deaths of Marylanders--not only from the Annapolis area but from the entire state. A surname index to brides, ministers, and others, including parents and relatives, serves as a guide to an additional 2,000 persons.

Book The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland s Eastern Shore

Download or read book The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland s Eastern Shore written by Paul G. Clemens and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, cash grains were introduced on Maryland's Eastern Shore and eventually replaced tobacco as market crops. What factors brought about this shift from tobacco production to diversified agriculture, and what were its effects on the people living there? This book charts the early social and economic history of the Eastern Shore, focusing on the ways in which Atlantic commerce shaped the lives of English settlers between 1620 and 1776. Professor Clemens is concerned with the relationship between changes in society brought about by local economic circumstances and those created by international market conditions. He also points out the distinctive balance between commercial agriculture and self-sufficiency farming that was achieved on the Eastern Shore. Offering a new perspective on early American history, his book not only depicts the growth of a particular region in colonial America but places that growth in the broader context of both the Atlantic market economy and the economies of other English New World settlements.

Book Witches  Wife Beaters  and Whores

Download or read book Witches Wife Beaters and Whores written by Elaine Forman Crane and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable, moral and immoral. In a compelling book full of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people, Elaine Forman Crane reveals the ways in which early Americans clashed with or conformed to the social norms established by the law. As trials throughout the country reveal, alleged malefactors such as witches, wife beaters, and whores, as well as debtors, rapists, and fornicators, were as much a part of the social landscape as farmers, merchants, and ministers. Ordinary people "made" law by establishing and enforcing informal rules of conduct. Codified by a handshake or over a mug of ale, such agreements became custom and custom became "law." Furthermore, by submitting to formal laws initiated from above, common folk legitimized a government that depended on popular consent to rule with authority. In this book we meet Marretie Joris, a New Amsterdam entrepreneur who sues Gabriel de Haes for calling her a whore; peer cautiously at Christian Stevenson, a Bermudian witch as bad "as any in the world;" and learn that Hannah Dyre feared to be alone with her husband—and subsequently died after a beating. We travel with Comfort Taylor as she crosses Narragansett Bay with Cuff, an enslaved ferry captain, whom she accuses of attempted rape, and watch as Samuel Banister pulls the trigger of a gun that kills the sheriff's deputy who tried to evict Banister from his home. And finally, we consider the promiscuous Marylanders Thomas Harris and Ann Goldsborough, who parented four illegitimate children, ran afoul of inheritance laws, and resolved matters only with the assistance of a ghost. Through the six trials she skillfully reconstructs here, Crane offers a surprising new look at how early American society defined and punished aberrant behavior, even as it defined itself through its legal system.

Book Queen Anne s County  Maryland Land Records  Book 2

Download or read book Queen Anne s County Maryland Land Records Book 2 written by R. Bernice Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EThis series contains abstracts of Queen Anne's County, Maryland deeds and land commissions. Entries contain grantor, grantee, tract name, and sometimes give spouse's name, neighbors, former owners, price, or acreage. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

Book The Journal of Southern History

Download or read book The Journal of Southern History written by Wendell Holmes Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."

Book Queen Ann s County  Maryland  Land Records

Download or read book Queen Ann s County Maryland Land Records written by R. Bernice Leonard and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series contains abstracts of Queen Anne's County, Maryland deeds and land commissions. Entries contain grantor, grantee, tract name, and sometimes give spouse's name, neighbors, former owners, price, or acreage. An index to full-names, places and subjects adds to the value of this work.

Book Maryland s Blue and Gray  A Border State s Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps

Download or read book Maryland s Blue and Gray A Border State s Union and Confederate Junior Officer Corps written by Kevin Conley Ruffner and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hirelings

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  • Author : Jennifer Hull Dorsey
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-15
  • ISBN : 0801461154
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Hirelings written by Jennifer Hull Dorsey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations, and communities in the early nineteenth century. Free Africans and their descendants had lived in Maryland since the seventeenth century, but before the American Revolution they were always few in number and lacking in economic resources or political leverage. By contrast, manumitted and freeborn African Americans in the early republic refashioned the Eastern Shore's economy and society, earning their livings as wage laborers while establishing thriving African American communities. As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers. They limited white planters' authority over their time and labor by reuniting their families in autonomous households, settling into free black neighborhoods, negotiating labor contracts that suited the needs of their households, and worshipping in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some moved to the cities, but many others migrated between employers as a strategy for meeting their needs and thwarting employers’ control. They demonstrated that independent and free African American communities could thrive on their own terms. In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.