Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / Carl Smith.

Main entry:

Smith, Carl S.

Title & Author:

Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / Carl Smith.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Description:

xi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-379) and index.
1. Fire. The great conflagration -- Trial by fire -- Social restraint -- The fire and culture memory. 2. Bomb. From resurrection to insurrection -- Plots and counterplots -- Words on trial. 3. Strike. Taming the urban beast -- Putting Pullman in its place: the search for a new urban order -- Making sense of the age.

Summary:

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 this book, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of beliefs that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans.
Though the fire, the bombing, and the development of Pullman from its founding to the notorious strike each has a history of its own, Smith shows that these histories were intimately connected in the public consciousness. Exploring 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 - informed one another, and that they collectively shaped how Americans saw, and continue to see, the city.

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ISBN:

0226764168 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226764160 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226764176
9780226764177

Subject:

Disasters Illinois Chicago History 19th century.
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
Pullman Strike, 1894.
Catastrophes Illinois Chicago Histoire 19e siècle.
Grève Pullman, 1894.
Disasters.
Social conditions
Stadscultuur.
Rampen.
Branden.
Oproeren.
Sociale situatie.
Mudanca social.
Condicoes sociais.
Urbanizacao (sociologia)
Historia dos estados unidos.
Desastres (prevencao e controle)
Fires Illinois Chicago History 19th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Illinois Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 19th century.
Illinois

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91732
Call No.: ID PLS HN80.C5.S57; ID:95-B612
Status: Available

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