Business, Democracy, and Progressive Reform in the Redevelopment of Baltimore after the Great Fire of 1904

Christine Meisner Rosen

Business History Review, 1989, vol. 63, issue 2, 283-328

Abstract: The following article reexamines the role of business leaders in the structural reform of American city government during the Progressive Era. In presenting a careful analysis of the fate of redevelopment plans after Baltimore's great 1904 fire, this case study argues against an unsophisticated good guy/bad guy approach to urban and business history. Historians are urged, however, not to abandon attempts to make reasoned moral judgments concerning the consequences of structural reform, but rather to base those efforts on a recognition of the deepening complexity of twentieth-century urban society.

Date: 1989
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