Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation

Mason-Dixon : crucible of the nation / Edward G. Gray.

Author/creator	Gray, Edward G., 1964- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2023]
Description	xiii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Borderlands--Northeastern States --History --19th century. Borderlands--Southern States --History --19th century. Slavery--United States --History --19th century. Mason-Dixon Line--History.

Contents	Part I: Marchlands in Motion. Lord Baltimore's Northern Problem -- William Penn's Unlikely Empire -- The Battle for Maryland's Far North -- Part II: Marchlands into Borderlands. The Squatters' Empire -- An American Bloodlands -- The Science of Borders -- Part III: A Border Emerges. The Making of States, Free and Slave -- Borderlands as Heartland -- Fugitive Diplomacy -- The Fall of Greater Baltimore -- Part IV: The Age of the Mason-Dixon Line. The Second Fugitive Slave Act -- Border War along the Underground Railroad -- Borderlands into Border States -- The End of the Line.
Abstract	"A grand narrative history of the boundary that began as a simple demarcation between the feuding Pennsylvania and Maryland colonies but became a byword for the fundamental national division between the slavery-preserving South and abolitionist North"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2022059423
ISBN	9780674987616 hardcover
ISBN	0674987616 hardcover

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	New Books	F157 .B7 G73 2023	✔ Available	Place Hold