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City of Big Shoulders : A History of Chicago /
"This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives m...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Early World of Chigagou, 1600-1750
- Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750-1835
- Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835-1850
- Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850-1890
- Life in a City on the Make, 1850-1900
- The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871-1893
- The New Immigration, 1880-1920
- Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890-1915
- World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915-1929
- The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929-1955
- Richard J. Daley and The City That Works, 1955-1976
- The Transitions of the Post-Daley Years, 1976-1997
- Glamorous and Grim : Chicago in the Twenty-First-Century.