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The ghosts of Johns Hopkins : the life and legacy that shaped an American city
- Title
- The ghosts of Johns Hopkins : the life and legacy that shaped an American city / Antero Pietila.
- Author
- Pietila, Antero, 1943-
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- [Lanham, MD] : National Book Network
- ©2018
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- Description
- xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers. In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, Antero Pietila weaves together a biography of the man with a portrait of how the institutions he founded have shaped the racial legacy of an industrial city from its heyday to its decline and revitalization. From the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the mercantile buildings that dominated Baltimore's downtown through much of the 19th century to the role that the president of Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored 'Negro Removal' that unleashed the migration patterns that created Baltimore's existing racial patchwork, Pietila tells the story of how one man's wealth shaped and reshaped the life of a city long after his lifetime"--
- Alternative Title
- Life and legacy that shaped an American city
- Subject
- Hopkins, Johns, 1795-1873
- Hopkins, Johns, 1795-1873 > Influence
- Johns Hopkins University > History
- Johns Hopkins Hosptial > History
- Johns Hopkins University
- 1800-1999
- Race relations
- Businessmen > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography
- Quakers > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography
- Philanthropists > Maryland > Baltimore > Biography
- Businessmen
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Philanthropists
- Quakers
- Social conditions
- Baltimore (Md.) > Biography
- Baltimore (Md.) > History > 19th century
- Baltimore (Md.) > History > 20th century
- Baltimore (Md.) > Race relations > History
- Baltimore (Md.) > Social conditions
- Maryland > Baltimore
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-293) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: The pragmatic opportunist. Johnsie's Baltimore -- The Civil War : blue and gray -- A brush with death -- America's richest spinster -- Doctors rob graves -- part II: The racial dynamics of modern Baltimore. The Monumental City -- Governments create slums -- Mobtown in the 1950s -- Activism builds up -- A cat of a different color -- Part III: Pushing out the lumpenproletariat. A citadel of hope -- Rough road to renewal -- The knockers -- The price of poison.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-349
- ISBN
- 1538116030
- 9781538116036
- 9781538116043 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1062506983
- Author
- Pietila, Antero, 1943- author.
- Title
- The ghosts of Johns Hopkins : the life and legacy that shaped an American city / Antero Pietila.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- Distributor
- [Lanham, MD] : National Book Network
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-293) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-349