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02976aam a22004458i 4500 001 C1AA91F4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 170604t20172017caua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017026928 020 $a 0520286499 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780520286498 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0520286480 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780520286481 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)981118028 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c CUS $d DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JAG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 050 00 $a F548.5 $b .D525 2017 082 00 $a 977.3/1104 $2 23 100 1 $a Diamond, Andrew J., $e author. 245 10 $a Chicago on the make : $b power and inequality in a modern city / $c Andrew J. Diamond. 263 $a 1711 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2017] 300 $a ix, 421 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Capital order -- Black metropolis -- White and black -- The machine -- Civil rights in the multiracial city -- Violence in the global city -- A city of two tales. 520 $a "Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much as any city in the nation. And, yet, few historians have attempted big-picture narratives of the city's transformation over the twentieth century. Chicago on the Make traces the evolution of the city's politics, culture, and economy as it grew from an unruly tangle of rail yards, slaughterhouses, factories, tenement houses, and fiercely defended ethnic neighborhoods into a truly global urban center. Reinterpreting the familiar narrative that Chicago's autocratic machine politics shaped its institutions and public life, Andrew J. Diamond demonstrates how the grassroots politics of race crippled progressive forces and enabled an alliance of downtown business interests to promote a neoliberal agenda that created the stark inequalities that ravage the city today. Chicago on the Make takes the story into the twenty-first century, chronicling Chicago's deeply entrenched social and urban problems as the city ascended to the national stage during the Obama years"--Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Politics and government $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a Illinois $z Chicago. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204048 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062253.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1AA91F4F11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search