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Author : John McGovern
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Daniel Trentworthy written by John McGovern and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Miller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252069147
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by Ross Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the great Chicago fire of 1871 and the rebuilding that followed, focusing on how the city manipulated the tragedy into a lasting myth about the modern struggle against adversity.
Author : James A. Kaser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461672589
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Chicago of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.
Author : Richard F. Bales
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604762
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow written by Richard F. Bales and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swallowed up more than three square miles in two days, leaving thousands homeless and 300 dead. Throughout history, the fire has been attributed to Mrs. O'Leary, an immigrant Irish milkmaid, and her cow. On one level, the tale of Mrs. O'Leary's cow is merely the quintessential urban legend. But the story also represents a means by which the upper classes of Chicago could blame the fire's chaos on a member of the working poor. Although that fire destroyed the official county documents, some land tract records were saved. Using this and other primary source information, Richard F. Bales created a scale drawing that reconstructed the O'Leary neighborhood. Next he turned to the transcripts--more than 1,100 handwritten pages--from an investigation conducted by the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners, which interviewed 50 people over the course of 12 days. The board's final report, published in the Chicago newspapers on December 12, 1871, indicates that commissioners were unable to determine the cause of the fire. And yet, by analyzing the 50 witnesses' testimonies, the author concludes that the commissioners could have determined the cause of the fire had they desired to do so. Being more concerned with saving their own reputation from post-fire reports of incompetence, drunkenness and bribery, the commissioners failed to press forward for an answer. The author has uncovered solid evidence as to what really caused the Great Chicago Fire.
Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226764257
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief written by Carl Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Americans. Examining a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events—and the public awareness of them—not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans understood, and continue to understand, Chicago and modern urban life. This classic of urban cultural history is updated with a foreword by the author that expands our understanding of urban disorder to encompass such recent examples as Hurricane Katrina, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and 9/11. “Cultural history at its finest. By utilizing questions and methodologies of urban studies, social history, and literary history, Smith creates a sophisticated account of changing visions of urban America.”—Robin F. Bachin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Author : Donald L. Miller
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795339852
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book City of the Century written by Donald L. Miller and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the story of Chicago—and the story of America, writ small. From its many natural disasters, including the Great Fire of 1871 and several cholera epidemics, to its winner-take-all politics, dynamic business empires, breathtaking architecture, its diverse cultures, and its multitude of writers, journalists, and artists, Chicago’s story is violent, inspiring, passionate, and fascinating from the first page to the last. The winner of the prestigious Great Lakes Book Award, given to the year’s most outstanding books highlighting the American heartland, City of the Century has received consistent rave reviews since its publication in 1996, and was made into a six-hour film airing on PBS’s American Experience series. Written with energetic prose and exacting detail, it brings Chicago’s history to vivid life. “With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.” —John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times “Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories.” —David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of John Adams and Truman “An invaluable companion in my journey through Old Chicago.” —Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Devil in the White City
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Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of "accessions" and "books in foreign languages".
Author : Marie Bashkirtseff
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Journal of Marie Bashkirtseff written by Marie Bashkirtseff and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Paul Sheffield
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Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The New Prodigal written by Stephen Paul Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Mora
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Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Republic of Costa Rica written by Joaquín Bernardo Calvo Mora and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott W. Berg
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0804197849
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Burning of the World written by Scott W. Berg and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enthralling story of the Great Chicago Fire and the power struggle over the city’s reconstruction in the wake of the tragedy In October of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the “big one”—a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. There hadn’t been a meaningful rain since July, and several big blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department’s scant resources. On October 8, when Kate Leary’s barn caught fire, so began a catastrophe that would forever change the soul of the city. Leary was a diligent, hardworking Irish woman, no more responsible for the fire than anyone else in the city at that time. But the conflagration that spread from her property quickly overtook the neighborhood, and before too long the floating embers had spread to the far reaches of the city. Families took to the streets with everything they could carry. Grain towers threatened to blow. The Chicago River boiled. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, Chicago saw the biggest and most destructive disaster the United States had ever endured, and Leary would be its scapegoat. Out of the ashes rose not just new skyscrapers, tenements, and homes, but also a new political order. The city’s elite saw an opportunity to rebuild on their terms, cracking down on crime and licentiousness and fortifying a business-friendly environment. But the city’s working class recognized a naked power grab that would challenge their traditions, hurt their chances of rebuilding, and move power out of elected officials’ hands and into private interests. As quickly as the firefight ended, another battle for the future of the city began between the town’s business elites and the poor and immigrant working class. An enrapturing account of the fire’s devastating path and an eye-opening look at its aftermath, The Burning of the World tells the story of one of the most infamous calamities in history and the powerful transformation that followed.
Author : Arun Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317629140
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals) written by Arun Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation. This tenet, the ‘gospel of wealth’, is a central concern in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and his contemporaries. First published in 1987, this study sets this group of writers in their historical context and shows how they elaborated the idea of wealth as an object of quasi-religious quest. What had previously been associated with disease and darkness, avarice and dishonour, now came to emblematise the virtues of thrift, prudence and diligence. The underlying argument is that the dominant group of a society legitimises its power through the appropriation of the vocabulary of religion, and the American business leaders were successful in doing this both in their own practice and through the more insidious medium of art. A detailed analysis, this reissue will be of particular value to students of American literature with an interest in the relationship between linguistic symbols and social order, and historical attitudes towards wealth in literature.
Author : Opie Read
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Up Terrapin River written by Opie Read and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literary News written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Leypoldt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Literary News written by Frederick Leypoldt and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Trade Circular and Publishers' Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Bruce Leffingwell
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Shooting on Upland, Marsh, and Stream written by William Bruce Leffingwell and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
