Robert G Spinney

City of Big Shoulders

A History of Chicago

• Broschiertes Buch

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"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mrs. Georgia Adams West
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781501748967
• ISBN-10: 1501748963
• Artikelnr.: 59515132

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Spinney

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