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



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Autore: Smith Carl Visualizza persona
Titolo: Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief [[electronic resource] ] : The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman Visualizza cluster
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
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786585303321
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