Carl Smith

Chicago's Great Fire

The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Atlantic
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 139mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780802159120
• ISBN-10: 0802159125
• Artikelnr.: 61141591

Autorenporträt

CARL SMITH is Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Northwestern University. His books include Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920; Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman; The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City; and City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago.