Maritime Maryland

A History
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8018-9475-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 209 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Winner, John Lyman Award, North American Society for Oceanic HistoryWinner, Heritage Book Award, Maryland Historic TrustFirst Place, Professional Scholarly Books, 25th Annual New York Book Show

Harvested for food, harnessed for power, and home to more than 3,600 species of plants, fish, and animals, the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have long been essential to the sustainability and survival of the region’s populations. Historian William S. Dudley explores that history in an engaging and comprehensive account of Maryland’s storied maritime heritage.

Dudley paints a vivid picture of Maryland’s maritime past in its broadest scope, exploring the complex and nuanced interactions of humans, land, and water through descriptions of shipbuilding, steam technology, agricultural pollution, commercial and passenger transportation, naval campaigns, watermen, crabbing, and oystering. He also discusses the evolution of recreational boating—yachting, cruising, and racing—and the role of underwater archaeology in uncovering the bay's shipwrecks. These interactions become chapters in the larger story of Maryland’s waterways, a story that Dudley tells through insightful prose and stunning illustrations.

This rich history of Maryland's waterways reveals how human enterprise has affected—and been affected by—the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dudley, William S

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Schiffbau, Seeverkehr
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. Colonial Maritime Heritage
2. From the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812
3. The War of 1812 in Chesapeake Bay
4. The Surge of Maritime Baltimore under Sail and Steam
5. Civil War on Chesapeake Bay
6. Oysters, Crabs, Fish, and Watermen
7. Maritime Commerce after the Civil War
8. The Decline of Working Sail
9. The Growth of Recreational Boating
10. Naval Installations on Chesapeake Bay
11. Maritime Archaeology and Cultural Resources
Epilogue: Our Diminishing Maritime Environment
Notes
Glossary of Nautical Terms
Essay on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dudley, William S
Historian William S. Dudley was the director of the Naval Historical Center from 1995 to 2004. The original editor of The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, he is the author of Maritime Maryland: A History and the coauthor of The Naval War of 1812: America's Second War of Independence.

William S. Dudley has long been associated with the naval and maritime history of Maryland and currently serves in positions with the Maryland Historical Society, the Naval Historical Foundation, and Sea History magazine. He is the historian general of the Naval Order of the United States and is author and editor of numerous works, including Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, James Fenimore Cooper's Ned Myers, or A Life before the Mast, and The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States. Dr. Dudley was director of the Naval Historical Center in Washington, DC, from 1995 to 2004.