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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462927903321

Autore

Smith Carl

Titolo

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief [[electronic resource] ] : The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

973

977.3/11

977.3/11041

977.31104

Soggetti

Disasters

Disasters - History - 19th century - Illinois - Chicago

Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871

Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886

Pullman Strike, 1894

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part One: Fire; 2. The Great Conflagration; 3. Trial by Fire; 4. Social Restraint; 5. The Fire and Cultural Memory; Part Two: Bomb; 6. From Resurrection to Insurrection; A gallery of photographs follows page; 7. Plots and Counterplots; 8. Words on Trial; Part Three: Strike; 9. Taming the Urban Beast; 10. Putting Pullman in Its Place: The Search for a New Urban Order; 11. Making Sense of the Age; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman-these



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 Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of interconnected beliefs and actions that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of A