Robert G. Spinney

City of Big Shoulders

A History of Chicago

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Produktbeschreibung

"This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-not only the tycoons and the politicians but also the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world who have kept the city working"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• second edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 638g
• ISBN-13: 9781501749599
• ISBN-10: 1501749595
• Artikelnr.: 58023284

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Spinney is Professor of History at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia. He is author of World War II in Nashville.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Early World of Chigagou
1600-1750 2. Chigagou Becomes Chicago
1750-1835 3. Boom
Bust
and Recovery in Early Chicago
1835-1850 4. Chicago Conquers the Midwest
1850-1890 5. Life in a City on the Make
1850-1900 6. The Fire
the Bomb
and the Fair
1871-1893 7. The New Immigration
1880-1920 8. Progressivism and Urban Reform
1890-1915 9. World War I and the Roaring Twenties
1915-1929 10. The Great Depression
World War II
and Suburban Growth
1929-1955 11. Richard J. Daley and the City That Works
1955-1976 12. The Challenges of the Post-Machine Years
1976-1997 13. Glamorous and Grim: Chicago in the Twenty-First Century