Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel fea[...]

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier fol[...]

Today there is a thriving 'emotions industry' to which philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists are contributing. Yet until two centuries ago 'the emotions' did not exist. In this path-breaking study Thomas Dixon shows how, during the nineteenth century, the emotions came into being as a dist[...]

Mason & Dixon er en kompleks, morsom og saftig fortelling om nybyggere og innfødte, om voldsomme sjøslag, erotiske og politiske forviklinger, istykkerrevne snøreliv og alvorlig misbruk av kaffe! Mason & Dixon er fortellingen om Charles Mason (1728-1786) og Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779), de to briti[...]

Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation. Today's converging energy, environmental, economic and political stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet, perhaps breakdown can create opportunities for the bold reform of our society and open up a way for the renewa[...]

Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation an[...]

This book by T. W. Dixon, Jr., details the whole history of passenger train service on the C&O. Beginning with the Virginia Central in the 1840s and ending with Amtrak's takeover in 1971, much of the information has never before been published. Especially during the 1920-1971 period, the era of the [...]

This is a full history of this very important C&O terminal tucked in between the New River and the hillside at the junction of the Allgehany Subdivision from the east and the New River Subdivision from the west.
For the first time, a complete chronological history of C&O's activities in this imp[...]