The ghosts of Johns Hopkins : the life and legacy that shaped an American city /

The ghosts of Johns Hopkins : the life and legacy that shaped an American city /

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Author / Creator:	Pietila, Antero, 1943-
Imprint:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Hopkins, Johns, -- 1795-1873. Hopkins, Johns, -- 1795-1873 -- Influence. Hopkins, Johns, -- 1795-1873. Johns Hopkins University -- History. Johns Hopkins Hosptial -- History. Johns Hopkins University. Businessmen -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography. Quakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography. Philanthropists -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography. Race relations. Businessmen. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Philanthropists. Quakers. Social conditions. Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography. Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 19th century. Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 20th century. Baltimore (Md.) -- Races relations -- History. Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions. Maryland -- Baltimore. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11724613

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Varying Form of Title:	Life and legacy that shaped an American city
ISBN:	1538116030 9781538116036
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-293) and index.
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"--

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