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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mack, Adam, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Senses and sensation.
HISTORY > Social History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Sens et sensations > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sens et sensations > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Senses and sensation > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Senses and sensation > Illinois > Chicago > History > 19th century.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Chicago (Ill.) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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