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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
I. Official Town, Unofficial Politics
Chapter 1. Settling
Chapter 2. Government in the Streets
Chapter 3. Revolution
II. Chartered City, Nest of Pirates
Chapter 4. Baltimore at War
Chapter 5. From Town to City
Chapter 6. “Calamities Peculiarly Incident to Large Cities”
III. Star-Spangled Victory, Ordeal of Peace
Chapter 7. Trial by Combat
Chapter 8. Baltimore Triumphant
Chapter 9. Public Debt and Internal Improvements
IV. Railroad to Ruin
Chapter 10. Working on the Railroad
Chapter 11. Corporate Challenge to Equality and an Educational Response
Chapter 12. Road Hogs
Chapter 13. Policing the Disorderly City
V. Race, Tracks, and Riot
Chapter 14. Racial Borders
Chapter 15. Between Mobs and Corporations
Chapter 16. Pigs and Politicians
Chapter 17. Know-Nothings
VI. Political Decline, Military Government, Municipal Pride
Chapter 18. American Party Reckoning
Chapter 19. Baltimore in the Divided Nation
Chapter 20. City at War
Chapter 21. Democratic Resurrection
VII. Pungent Politics and the Faint Smell of Money
Chapter 22. Ex-Slaves, Ex-Confederates, and the New Regime
Chapter 23. The Ring
Chapter 24. Fin de Siècle
Chapter 25. Political Economy
VIII. Devastation: Racial Division, Moral and Municipal Boundaries
Chapter 26. Fire, Smoke, and Segregation
Chapter 27. Metropolitan Morality
Chapter 28. World War and Municipal Conquest
Chapter 29. Civil Service and Prohibition
IX. Learning the New Deal
Chapter 30. Boom to Bust
Chapter 31. Relief, Repeal, New Deal
Chapter 32. Democratic Harmony, Republican Victory
Chapter 33. D’Alesandro and His Democrats
X. Building a Better Bureaucracy
Chapter 34. I’m All Right, Jack
Chapter 35. Slow-Motion Race Riot
Chapter 36. Racial Breakdown
XI. Revisioning Baltimore
Chapter 37. Baltimore’s Best
Chapter 38. Driving the City
Chapter 39. Turning Point
Afterword: Not Yet History
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. Population, Race, and Nativity, Baltimore, 1790–2000
Appendix B. Baltimore Mayors, 1797–2017
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
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