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Author:

Mack, Adam, 1973- author.

Title:

Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers / Adam Mack.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 161 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.
Senses and sensation--Chicago--Chicago--History--19th century.
Senses and sensation--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--19th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Senses and sensation.
Social history.
Illinois--Chicago.
1800 - 1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Smelling civic peril: the Chicago Styx -- Sensory overload: the Chicago Fire, 1871 -- To quiet the roar of the mob: George M. Pullman's model town -- A revolutionary and a puritan: Upton Sinclair and The jungle -- Sensory refreshment: the other white city.

Series:

Studies in sensory history

ISBN:

0252080750 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252080753 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252039181 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252039188

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893454446

LCCN:

2014042404

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)