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

• Autore: Smith Carl
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (441 p.)
• Disciplina: 973; 977.3/11; 977.3/11041; 977.31104
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786585303321
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