Mason-Dixon : : Crucible of the Nation / / Edward G. Gray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Gray, Edward G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

The first comprehensive history of the Mason-Dixon Line—a dramatic story of imperial rivalry and settler-colonial violence, the bonds of slavery and the fight for freedom.The United States is the product of border dynamics—not just at international frontiers but at the boundary that runs through its...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Maps and Illustrations
• Note on Terms
• Prologue
• Introduction
• Part I: Marchlands in Motion
• Introduction
• 1. Lord Baltimore’s Northern Problem
• 2. William Penn’s Unlikely Empire
• 3. The Battle for Maryland’s Far North
• Part II: Marchlands into Borderlands
• Introduction
• 4. The Squatters’ Empire
• 5. An American Bloodlands
• 6. The Science of Borders
• Part III: A Border Emerges
• Introduction
• 7. The Making of States, Free and Slave
• 8. Borderlands as Heartland
• 9. Fugitive Diplomacy
• 10. The Fall of Greater Baltimore
• Part IV: The Age of the Mason-Dixon Line
• Introduction
• 11. The Second Fugitive Slave Act
• 12. Border War along the Underground Railroad
• 13. Borderlands into Border States
• 14. The End of the Line
• Epilogue
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index