Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers /

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A hundred years and more ago, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mack, Adam, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Studies in sensory history.
Temas:
1800-1999
Senses and sensation > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Senses and sensation > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Sens et sensations > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sens et sensations > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > Social History.
Senses and sensation.
Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Illinois > Chicago.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Smelling civic peril: the Chicago Styx
  • Sensory overload: the Chicago Fire, 1871
  • To quiet the roar of the mob: George M. Pullman's model town
  • A revolutionary and a puritan: Upton Sinclair and The jungle
  • Sensory refreshment: the other white city.

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