MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011027998
003 DLC
005 20111019100636.0
008 110706s2011 scu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011027998
020 $a9781609491086
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us-md
050 00 $aF189.B157$bS55 2011
082 00 $a975.2/6$223
100 1 $aSilberman, Lauren R.
245 10 $aWicked Baltimore /$cLauren Silberman.
260 $aCharleston, SC :$bHistory Press,$c2011.
263 $a1106
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aForeword / Christopher Scharpf -- Introduction -- Banishing William Goddard -- Napoleon's sister-in-law : the international marriage scandal of Betsy Patterson Bonaparte -- America's oldest operating penitentiary -- The birth of Mobtown -- Nest of pirates -- A terrible trade : the slave pens of Baltimore -- Would Poe have been Poe without Baltimore? -- Plug uglies, bloodtubs and rip raps, oh my! -- The Baltimore plot : Baltimore and the beginning of the Civil War -- "Revolt on the railroads" : the Great Strike of 1877 -- Did she or didn't she? : the case of the "Baltimore Borgia" -- Burking, bodies and Baltimore -- Playing "Winder" : the escape and capture of Ike Winder -- The sordid findings of Baltimore's vice commission -- The block -- The battle over liquid bread : Baltimore and prohibition.
651 0 $aBaltimore (Md.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aCrime$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory.
651 0 $aCorruption$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial problems$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocial conflict$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory.