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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817529803321

Autore

Smith Carl S

Titolo

Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / / Carl Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1995

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (441 p.)

Disciplina

977.3/11

Soggetti

Disasters - Illinois - Chicago - History - 19th century

Fires - Illinois - Chicago - History - 19th century

Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886

Pullman Strike, 1894

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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