A wild kind of boldness : the Chicago history reader / edited by Rosemary K. Adams ; foreword by Studs Terkel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Rosemary K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chicago (Ill.)--History.

Chicago (Ill.).

Physical Description:

xiv, 458 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. ; Chicago : Chicago Historical Society, 1998.

Summary:

Composed of 35 articles that appeared in the quarterly of the Chicago Historical Society between 1974 and 1996, this engaging one-volume history chronicles each major period in Chicago's development from a frontier outpost to a great metropolis.

Contents:

Part I. The Rise of a Commercial City

The Launching of Chicago: The Situation and the Site (Summer 1980) / Harold M. Mayer 3

To Be the Central City: Chicago, 1848-57 (Fall 1981) / William J. Cronon 14

Goodbye, Madora Beaubien: The Americanization of Early Chicago Society (Summer 1980) / Jacqueline Peterson 24

Early Days on the Illinois & Michigan Canal (Winter 1974-75) / John Lamb 37

A Furor of Benevolence (Winter 1986-87) / Beverly Gordon 46

Part II. Industrialization and Immigration

Smoldering City (Winter 1988-89) / Karen Sawislak 59

Chicago's Great Upheaval of 1877 (Spring 1980) / Richard Schneirov 81

Cataclysm and Cultural Consciousness: Chicago and the Haymarket Trial (Summer 1986) / Carl S. Smith 96

Upstairs-Downstairs in Chicago 1870-1907: The Glessner Household (Winter 1977-78) / Helen C. Callahan 110

Chicago's Ethnics and the Politics of Accommodation (Fall 1974) / John D. Buenker 123

Part III. The Progressive Era

Everything under One Roof: World's Fairs and Department Stores in Paris and Chicago (Fall 1983) / Russell Lewis 135

The Creation of Chicago's Sanitary District and Construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal (Summer 1979) / Louis P. Cain 153

Jens Jensen and Columbus Park (Winter 1975-76) / Malcolm Collier 166

The Result of Honest Hard Work: Creating a Suburban Ethos for Evanston (Summer 1984) / Michael H. Ebner 176

Walkout: The Chicago Men's Garment Workers' Strike, 1910-11 (Winter 1979-80) / N. Sue Weiler 190

Hull-House as Women's Space (Winter 1983) / Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz 201

Samuel Insull and the Electric City (Spring 1986) / Harold L. Platt 215

Being Born in Chicago (Winter 1986-87) / Susan Sessions Rugh 227

Antilabor Mercenaries or Defenders of Public Order (Fall-Winter 1991-92) / Clayton D. Laurie 239

Don't Shake

Salute! (Fall-Winter 1990-91) / David E. Ruth 256

Part IV. The Chicago Cultural Renaissance

Pleasure Garden on the Midway (Fall-Winter 1987-88) / Paul Kruty 271

H. L. Mencken and Literary Chicago (Summer 1985) / Anthony Grosch 284

"Ain't We Got Fun?" (Winter 1985-86) / Lewis A. Erenberg 298

The Saloon in a Changing Chicago (Winter 1975-76) / Perry Duis 313

Claude A. Barnett and the Associated Negro Press (Spring 1983) / Linda J. Evans 324

James T. Farrell and Washington Park: The Novel as Social History (Summer 1979) / Charles Fanning, Ellen Skerrett 338

Part V. Chicago in Modern Times

The Enduring Chicago Machine (Spring 1986) / Richard C. Wade 351

"Rent Reasonable to Right Parties": Gold Coast Apartment Buildings, 1906-1929 (Summer 1979) / Celia Hilliard 361

Crisis and Community: The Back of the Yards 1921 (Fall 1977) / Dominic A. Pacyga 371

The Brotherhood (Fall 1996) / Beth Tompkins Bates 381

The Giant Jewel: Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair (July 1993) / Susan Talbot-Stanaway 391

Chicago and the Bungalow Boom of the 1920s (Summer 1981) / Daniel J. Prosser 401

"Big Red in Bronzeville": Mayor Ed Kelly Reels in the Black Vote (Summer 1981) / Roger Biles 410

The Siting of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: A Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s (Winter 1980-81) / George Rosen 422

Staging the Avant-Garde (Spring-Summer 1988) / Stuart J. Hecht 435.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0802830196

OCLC:

38832019