

William S. Dudley
Winner, John Lyman Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
Winner, Heritage Book Award, Maryland Historic Trust
First 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...
Winner, John Lyman Award, North American Society for Oceanic History
Winner, Heritage Book Award, Maryland Historic Trust
First 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.
An important resource for any maritime collection, especially those with special interests in Maryland and her contributions to history and the economy.
This book will make a very nice addition to your maritime library.
A poetic dedication to the state and its maritime traditions... Including superbly reproduced color and black-and-white images, this book will hold appeal for many.
Maritime Maryland is not merely a coffee-table book, although it would grace any coffee table. It is an absorbing, interesting study that is fact-filled but not fact-driven. The text is well-written, consistently paced, and easy to read. The book has a pleasing design. It is adequately illustrated but not cluttered with pictures... It is a clearly written, perceptive and well-rounded study of a people and their relationship with the water.
An enjoyable and an enlightening read.
An absorbing, interesting study that is fact-filled, well-written, consistently paced, and easy to read.
The Free State of Maryland played a notable part throughout the War of 1812, but it also has a rich history aside from that pivotal era, and is nowhere better defined than in this new, stellar work.
A fine piece of scholarship... deserves to be welcomed by students of both maritime history and current issues in cultural resource and environmental management. And it deserves an audience far beyond the state of Maryland.
Readable overview that serves as a good introduction to a vital part of this state's history and commerce... an important resource for any maritime collection.
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
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
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