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Author : Sarah Seymour Blair
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Social Life in Chicago written by Sarah Seymour Blair and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Seymour Blair
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ISBN 13 : 9781332214488
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Early Social Life in Chicago (Classic Reprint) written by Sarah Seymour Blair and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Social Life in Chicago I first saw Chicago in 1854, when I came here a bride. It then boasted a population of 75,000, which we thought a large city, compared with the five thousand when my husband took up his residence here in 1842. My first impression was, "How very low! How very flat! How very muddy!" And when I think of the earlier Chicago and the influence of environment, I ask myself whether hills and mountains are essential to romance and especially attractive to brave and chivalrous spirits. We recall the historical novels that center about the rugged banks of the St. Lawrence, the Heights of Abraham, the Chateau of St. Louis of Frontenac, which read like the social life of a new Versailles in a new France; or we look back to the hill-country of our own New England, where many of us have seen, in old colonial homes, much to excite the imagination. What have we to compare with such settings of social life? Let us gather up what we may. Our prairies, we grant, are low and generally level, but they are not without beauty. In the early days their flora excited enthusiastic admiration. "Flower Oceans," they have been called, and the green swells of the rolling prairies contribute to the fitness of the simile. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Eric Klinenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627621X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Heat Wave written by Eric Klinenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling” story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society (Boston Globe). On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. By July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—twenty times the number of those struck down by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Heat waves kill more Americans than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city’s vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a “social autopsy,” examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been. He investigates why some neighborhoods experienced greater mortality than others, how city government responded, and how journalists, scientists, and public officials reported and explained these events. Through years of fieldwork, interviews, and research, he uncovers the surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown that contributed to this human catastrophe as hundreds died alone behind locked doors and sealed windows, out of contact with friends, family, community groups, and public agencies. As this incisive and gripping account demonstrates, the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities made visible by the 1995 heat wave remain in play in America’s cities today—and we ignore them at our peril. Includes photos and a new preface on meeting the challenges of climate change in urban centers “Heat Wave is not so much a book about weather, as it is about the calamitous consequences of forgetting our fellow citizens. . . . A provocative, fascinating book, one that applies to much more than weather disasters.” —Chicago Sun-Times “It’s hard to put down Heat Wave without believing you’ve just read a tale of slow murder by public policy.” —Salon “A classic. I can’t recommend it enough.” —Chris Hayes
Author : Graham Taylor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390753103
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Chicago Commons written by Graham Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago Commons: A Social Center for Civic Co-Operation This call out of the great (leep of the common life was answered out of the depth of some individual lives. A heart hunger for a larger share of the race life, a greater part in real things, a conscious identity with the common life sprang up here and there among those who, for one reason or another, felt more or less apart from human kind. So, more by an instinctive impulse than by any concerted movement, groups of men and women, at first only from the universities, but more and more from other and equally adequate sources of supply, took up their residence among and became a part of the residential population in the industrial districts of the cities. Thus social settlements arose almost spontaneously, just where the density of population and complexity of life most lacked and demanded the ideal, the initiative and the common ground which, in part, at least, are supplied at these co-operative centers. We, who are at Chicago Commons to share the common lot, choose to live, for our own and others' sake, where we seem to be most needed, rather than where the neigh borhood is supposed to offer the most of social privilege or prestige. We are here to be all we can to the people and to receive all they are to us as friends and neighbors. We assume the full obligations and claim all the rights of citizenship in a community with whose interests we identify ourselves. Whose conditions we share and for whose home happiness, material welfare, political freedom and social privilege and progress we try to do our part. When in order to be entrusted with and legally hold the tenure of a building and its equipment for neighborhood service, a few friends of the settlement and its community were incorporated under the laws of Illinois into the very informally organized Chicago Commons Association, its purpose was formulated for the articles of incorporation thus The object for which it is formed is to provide a center of a higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain religious, educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN 13 : 9781331954439
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Chicago Social and Club Register (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chicago Social and Club Register Above the turmoil of the city there arises a blatant call. It is the bugle of unrest, the instrument of Democracy. This master influence has awakened humanity till now, at the dawn of the twentieth century, practically every daughter of Chicago has set her given standard of attainment and has striven earnestly toward her goal. Many have won their honors and borne them gracefully - hence this scroll, that we may record, for the annals of time, Chicago's Prominent Women and their activities, lest we forget, in the glories of the future, the honors of the hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : E. O. G
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780530309200
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Early Chicago and Vicinity written by E. O. G and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Forrest Crissey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656159451
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (594 download)
Download or read book An Account of the Origin and Growth of Chicago and Its First Department Store written by Forrest Crissey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Account of the Origin and Growth of Chicago and Its First Department Store: The Story of Centralized Shopping Under One Roof, Its Unique Location and Events Connected With Its History What swift and wonderful changes, what a world of activity, what a marvelous labor of city building, what an unparalleled development of business and social life have been witnessed in this city of ours since forty years ago! Magic is the only word for the making of a city like Chicago that has transformed from a feeble trading post to a mighty metropolis within the span of a single century, and from a town of small stores to a retail metropolis within a period of two-score years. How all this happened is one of the most fascinating stories that could possibly be told. It crowds within one human lifetime almost the complete epic of civiliza tion. What a marvelous movie film is the mind of the man or woman who happened to be born in Chicago when it was a sprawling pioneer village and has lived to see it become America's second city! And many an Old Settler in Chicago has personally spanned the great gap between these two extremes and seen every step of this development. What film feature ever thrown upon the screen can compare in scope and vividness with such a memory reel? None. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ruy Blanes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022608180X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Social Life of Spirits written by Ruy Blanes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the contributors of this book uncover a livelier, more diverse environment of entities—with their own histories, motivations, and social interactions—providing a new understanding of spirits not as symbols, but as agents. The contributors tour the spiritual globe—the globe of nonthings—in essays on topics ranging from the Holy Ghost in southern Africa to spirits of the “people of the streets” in Rio de Janeiro to dragons and magic in Britain. Avoiding a reliance on religion and belief systems to explain the significance of spirits, they reimagine spirits in a rich network of social trajectories, ultimately arguing for a new ontological ground upon which to examine the intangible world and its interactions with the tangible one.
Author : Edward G. Mason
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ISBN 13 : 9781331702290
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago and Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by Edward G. Mason and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Chicago and Illinois Early Chicago and Illinois was written by Edward G. Mason in 1890. This is a 563 page book, containing 175559 words and 20 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267599424
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Early Chicago written by John Wentworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Chicago: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society, at McCormick Hall, on Sunday Afternoon, April 11, 1875, With Supplemental Notes Mayor Wentworth, during his first term, in 1857, introduced the first steam fire engine into the City. It was called Long John. During his second term, 1861, he introduced two more, and called them Liberty and Economy, in honor of a favorite watchword of his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN 13 : 022670758X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Objects written by Maia Kotrosits and published by Class 200: New Studies in Religion. This book was released on 2020 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--
Author : Richard A. Settersten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022674826X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Living on the Edge written by Richard A. Settersten and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History carves its imprint on human lives for generations after. When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often snap to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gender roles, and new economic opportunities all point to a decisive turning point. But these were not the only changes that shaped our world, and in Living on the Edge, we learn that rapid social change and uncertainty also defined the lives of Americans born at the turn of the twentieth century. The changes they cultivated and witnessed affect our world as we understand it today. Drawing from the iconic longitudinal Berkeley Guidance Study, Living on the Edge reveals the hopes, struggles, and daily lives of the 1900 generation. Most surprising is how relevant and relatable the lives and experiences of this generation are today, despite the gap of a century. From the reorganization of marriage and family roles and relationships to strategies for adapting to a dramatically changing economy, the challenges faced by this earlier generation echo our own time. Living on the Edge offers an intimate glimpse into not just the history of our country, but the feelings, dreams, and fears of a generation remarkably kindred to the present day.
Author : Mabel Mcilvaine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332112299
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Early Chicago written by Mabel Mcilvaine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Early Chicago: With an Introduction About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edward T. Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331994374
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (943 download)
Download or read book A History of the Chicago Club (Classic Reprint) written by Edward T. Blair and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Chicago Club In different ways and through various disadvantages our attention has been called to the losses suffered by the Club in the total destruction of its records by the fire of 1871, and the partial destruction of the same by fire, November 3, 1887, and to the total absence of any system for the preservation of our current documentary history. The Club has, for example, no file of its Annual Reports. We have not even copies of any of our Club books as issued from time to time. We have, therefore, invited Mr. Edward T. Blair to undertake the task of preparing and publishing for us a history of our Club from its very beginning, and he has kindly accepted the responsibility. Such a work will be of the greatest inter- est to us all, and will be an important contribution to the history of Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Peter Kivisto
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 1412978157
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Illuminating Social Life written by Peter Kivisto and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating Social Life has enjoyed increasing popularity with each edition. It is the only book designed for undergraduate teaching that shows today's students how classical and contemporary social theories can be used to shed new light on such topics as the internet, the world of work, fast food restaurants, shopping malls, alcohol use, body building, sales and service, and new religious movements.A perfect complement for the sociological theory course, it offers 13 original essays by leading scholars in the field who are also experienced undergraduate theory teachers. Substantial introductions by the editor link the applied essays to a complete review of the classical and modern social theories used in the book.
Author : Edwin Oscar 1832-1916 Gale
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781363864393
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (643 download)
Download or read book REMINISCENCES OF EARLY CHICAGO written by Edwin Oscar 1832-1916 Gale and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226251454
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Made in America written by Claude S. Fischer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our nation began with the simple phrase, “We the People.” But who were and are “We”? Who were we in 1776, in 1865, or 1968, and is there any continuity in character between the we of those years and the nearly 300 million people living in the radically different America of today? With Made in America, Claude S. Fischer draws on decades of historical, psychological, and social research to answer that question by tracking the evolution of American character and culture over three centuries. He explodes myths—such as that contemporary Americans are more mobile and less religious than their ancestors, or that they are more focused on money and consumption—and reveals instead how greater security and wealth have only reinforced the independence, egalitarianism, and commitment to community that characterized our people from the earliest years. Skillfully drawing on personal stories of representative Americans, Fischer shows that affluence and social progress have allowed more people to participate fully in cultural and political life, thus broadening the category of “American” —yet at the same time what it means to be an American has retained surprising continuity with much earlier notions of American character. Firmly in the vein of such classics as The Lonely Crowd and Habits of the Heart—yet challenging many of their conclusions—Made in America takes readers beyond the simplicity of headlines and the actions of elites to show us the lives, aspirations, and emotions of ordinary Americans, from the settling of the colonies to the settling of the suburbs.
