Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874 (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Karen Sawislak - 1995-12-15

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xi, 396 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Historical Studies of Urban America. Tight, clean copy. "The fateful kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the wild flight before the flames, the astonishingly quick rebuilding--these are the well-known stories of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But as much as Chicago's recovery from disaster was a remarkable civic achievement, the Great Fire is also the story of a city's people divided and at odds. This is the story that Karen Sawislak tells so revealingly in this book. In a detailed account, drawn on memoirs, private correspondences, and other documents, Sawislak chronicles years of widespread, sometimes bitter, social and political conflict in the fire's wake, from fights over relief soup kitchens to cries against profiteering and marches on city hall by workers burned out of their homes. She shows how through the years of rebuilding the people of Chicago struggled to define civic order--and the… Read More

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University Of Chicago Press, ( 1995 ). First printing. Paperback. Fine. 8vo, 396 pages, pictorial wrappers Focusses on the day-to-day challenges of life in the city as it rebuilt after its massive destruction. "As they rebuilt ... Chicagoans confronted hard questions about charity and social welfare, work and labor relations, morality, and the limits of state power. Their debates ... exposed the arrays of values and interests that different class, ethnic and religious groups brought to these public discussions." Issued in the Historical Studies of Urban America series.

University of Chicago Press. New with no dust jacket. 1995. Paperbound. 0226735486 . New in shrinkwrap ; Historical Studies of Urban America Series; 403 pages .