The Baltimore book : new views of local history edited by Elizabeth Fee, Linda Shopes, Linda Zeidman

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shopes, Linda.

Zeidman, Linda.

Fee, Elizabeth.

Series:

Critical perspectives on the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Baltimore (Md.)--History.

Working class.

Baltimore (Md.)--History.

Baltimore (Md.).

Baltimore (Md.)--Industries--History.

Baltimore (Md.)--Tours.

Physical Description:

xviii, 268 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c1991.

Contents:

Flight to the suburbs : suburbanization and racial change on Baltimore's West Side / W. Edward Orser

A view from Federal Hill / David Harvey.

Camden yards and the strike of 1877 / Sylvia Gillett

Evergreen house and the Garrett family : a railroad fortune / Elizabeth Fee

Hampden-Woodberry : Baltimore's mill villages / Bill Harvey

Old West Baltimore : segregation, African-American culture, and the struggle for equality / Karen Olson

The city that tries to suit everybody : Baltimore's clothing industry / Jo Ann E. Argersinger

East-side union halls : where craft workers met, 1887-1917 / Roderick Ryon

Fells Point : community and conflict in a working-class neighborhood / Linda Shopes

Radicalism on the waterfront : seamen in the 1930s / Linda Zeidman & Eric Hallengren

Sparrows Point, Dundalk, Highlandtown, Old West Baltimore : home of gold dust and the union card / Linda Zeidman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

087722823X (pb.) :

0877228175 :

OCLC:

22952334