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Duis, Perry R.

 
9780252023941: Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920
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ISBN 10: 0252023943 ISBN 13: 9780252023941
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Sinopsis

Provides details of life in Chicago for lower- and middle-class people, from 1837 to 1920.

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Críticas

"Not only is Challenging Chicago a model of how to turn a collection of articles into a book, it is one of the best books ever written about Chicago... Duis has mastered an incredible amount of information (the illustrations and endnotes are worth the price of the book)... After reading Challenging Chicago you will never again look at the urban landscape -- the streets, the river, the warehouses, the neighborhoods, the houses and the architecture -- without seeing the remains of the city that once was, and without thinking of the people who lived there." -- James L. Swanson, Chicago Tribune "A fascinating glimpse at the excitement as well as the dangers and risks of life in one of the world's great industrial cities... Chicago, a tough, wonderful place, finds expression in Duis's fascinating book." -- James R. Barrett, The Historian

Reseña del editor

Risky city. This was Chicago during an unprecedented period of rapid growth: a burgeoning metropolis that quickly became a "concentration of risk." The many thousands of immigrants and rural Americans who streamed into the city during these years found it far more congested, crowded, dangerous, unpleasant, immoral, and unhealthy than they had anticipated. Challenging Chicago reveals the survival strategies to which the many people who flocked to the city resorted, especially those of the lower and middle classes for whom urban life was a new experience.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252023943
ISBN 13 
9780252023941
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
448
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  0252074157 ISBN 13:  9780252074158
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 2006
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