Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
by Karen Sawislak
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- ISBN 10
- 0226735486
- ISBN 13
- 9780226735481
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About This Item
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.
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.
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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5044
- Title
- Smoldering City:
- Author
- Karen Sawislak
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0226735486
- ISBN 13
- 9780226735481
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- ( 1995 )
- Keywords
- Great Chicago Fire, urbanology, urban studies, Chicago, Illinois
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