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Baltimore : A Political History /
"People from Baltimore glory in its quirky charm, small-town character, and history of North-cum-South culture. Not every native, however, realizes that for much of the nineteenth century, as "mobtown," the city often made its case for being one of the most violent places in the count...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Official town, improvised authority
- Settling
- Government in the streets
- Revolution
- Chartered city, nest of pirates
- Baltimore at war
- From town to city
- "Calamities peculiarly incident to large cities"
- Trial by combat
- Baltimore triumphant
- Public debt and internal improvements
- Working on the railroad
- Road hogs
- Creating order
- Racial borders
- Between mobs and corporations
- Pigs and politicians
- Know nothings
- American reckoning
- Baltimore in the divided nation
- City at war
- Democratic resurrection
- Ex-slaves, ex-Confederates, and the new regime
- The ring
- Fin de siecle
- Political economy
- Fire, smoke, and segregation
- Metropolitan morality
- World war and municipal conquest
- Civil service and Prohibition
- Boom to bust
- Relief, repeal, new deal
- Democratic harmony, Republican victory
- D'Alesandro and his Democrats
- I'm alright jack
- Slow motion race riot
- Racial breakdown
- Baltimore's best
- Driving the city
- Turning point
- Afterword: Not yet history.