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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman.
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullmanthese remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullmanthese remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of beliefs that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Studying a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as p. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (432 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226764252 0226764257 1281966533 9781281966537 |