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Author : H. N. Clark
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Download or read book The Elegant Eighties, when Chicago was Young written by H. N. Clark and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264603
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Black Chicago's First Century written by Christopher Robert Reed and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City, encompassing a range of activities and events that span the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods. The author takes us from a time when black Chicago provided both workers and soldiers for the Union cause to the ensuing decades that saw the rise and development of a stratified class structure and growth in employment, politics, and culture. Just as the city was transformed in its first century of existence, so were its black inhabitants. Methodologically relying on the federal pension records of Civil War soldiers at the National Archives, as well as previously neglected photographic evidence, manuscripts, contemporary newspapers, and secondary sources, Reed captures the lives of Chicago’s vast army of ordinary black men and women. He places black Chicagoans within the context of northern urban history, providing a better understanding of the similarities and differences among them. We learn of the conditions African Americans faced before and after Emancipation. We learn how the black community changed and developed over time: we learn how these people endured—how they educated their children, how they worked, organized, and played. Black Chicago’s First Century is a balanced and coherent work. Anyone with an interest in urban history or African American studies will find much value in this book.
Author : Herma Naomi Clark
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014249081
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Elegant Eighties, When Chicago Was Young written by Herma Naomi Clark and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 328 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025207615X
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Chicago Sports Reader written by Steven A. Riess and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the fast, the strong, the agile, and the tricky throughout Chicago's storied sports history
Author : Eleanor J. Stebner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791434871
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Women of Hull House written by Eleanor J. Stebner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle- and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--as they were called in their own day--were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts. The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals. By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints.
Author : Steven A. Riess
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815655282
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Horse Racing the Chicago Way written by Steven A. Riess and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago may seem a surprising choice for studying thoroughbred racing, especially since it was originally a famous harness racing town and did not get heavily into thoroughbred racing until the 1880s. However, Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was second only to New York as a center of both thoroughbred racing and off-track gambling. Horse Racing the Chicago Way shines a light on this fascinating, complicated history, exploring the role of political influence and class in the rise and fall of thoroughbred racing; the business of racing; the cultural and social significance of racing; and the impact widespread opposition to gambling in Illinois had on the sport. Riess also draws attention to the nexus that existed between horse racing, politics, and syndicate crime, as well as the emergence of neighborhood bookmaking, and the role of the national racing wire in Chicago. Taking readers from the grandstands of Chicago’s finest tracks to the underworld of crime syndicates and downtown poolrooms, Riess brings to life this understudied era of sports history.
Author : Frederic Cople Jaher
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252009327
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Urban Establishment written by Frederic Cople Jaher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rima Lunin Schultz
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Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Women Building Chicago 1790-1990 written by Rima Lunin Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.
Author : Emily Remus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674240316
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book A Shoppers’ Paradise written by Emily Remus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century to chronicle a largely unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district. After the city’s Great Fire, Chicago’s downtown rose like a phoenix to become a center of urban capitalism. Moneyed women explored the newly built department stores, theaters, and restaurants that invited their patronage and encouraged them to indulge their fancies. Yet their presence and purchasing power were not universally appreciated. City officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists condemned these women’s conspicuous new habits as they took their place on crowded streets in a business district once dominated by men. A Shoppers’ Paradise reveals crucial points of conflict as consuming women accessed the city center: the nature of urban commerce, the place of women, the morality of consumer pleasure. The social, economic, and legal clashes that ensued, and their outcome, reshaped the downtown environment for everyone and established women’s new rights to consumption, mobility, and freedom.
Author : Mark Washburne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524542830
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book A Biography of Elihu Benjamin Washburne Congressman, Secretary of State, Envoy Extraordinary written by Mark Washburne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1869, President Grant nominated his old friend Elihu Washburne as secretary of state and then as minister to France. Washburne presented his credentials to Napoleon III and was present in 1870 for the Franco-German War. Following the war with the Germans, the people of Paris rose up in revolt and proclaimed a leftist commune. The poor response of the French government to feed the people of Paris after the peace treaty contributed to the political turmoil. This sixth volume explores the life of the American minister to France, Elihu Washburne, during the years following the Franco-German War and Paris Commune as the French government and people tried to rebuild their country following those dramatic events.
Author : Robert E. Weems Jr.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050029
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Building the Black Metropolis written by Robert E. Weems Jr. and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald’s operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long-overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. Together they examine how factors like the influx of southern migrants and the city’s unique segregation patterns made Chicago a prolific incubator of productive business development—and made building a black metropolis as much a necessity as an opportunity. Contributors: Jason P. Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, and Robert E. Weems Jr.
Author : Herma Naomi Clark
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259875642
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book The Elegant Eighties, When Chicago Was Young (Classic Reprint) written by Herma Naomi Clark and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Elegant Eighties, When Chicago Was Young 1 8 8 4 Matthew Arnold at Central Music Hall. David Swing on Socialism? Chinese Gordon. Marriage of Anna Farwell and Reginald. 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 : Ralph C. Wilcox
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487091
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Sporting Dystopias written by Ralph C. Wilcox and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching beyond the popular celebration of commercial gains often associated with the proliferation of stadiums, events, and teams in the city, Sporting Dystopias explores the role of sport in the process of community building. Scholars from various fields, including anthropology, cultural studies, history, marketing, media studies, and sociology, examine the cultural, economic, and political interplay of sport and the city. The book systematically challenges the overwhelming claims of sport's benefit to the city as it scrutinizes the various tensions inherent in the relationship. Grounded in economic means, racial and ethnic affiliation, and the contestation for space, sport is seen as precipitating a broad range of human challenges.
Author : Herma Clark
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Author : Susan S. Benjamin
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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Houses of Chicago, 1871-1921 written by Susan S. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first authoritative study of Chicago's city houses, portraying a private world of midwestern splendor.
Author : Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415585
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife of "Little Women" written by Beverly Lyon Clark and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans.
