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The great Chicago fire / Ross Miller.
Fine Arts Library NA735.C4 M55 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Ross.
- Standardized Title:
- American apocalypse
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Illinois--Chicago.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture--Mutilation, defacement, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 287 pages : i ll. ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten 'with a pen of fire'. This study considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity. It attempts to resolve the city's conflicted identity into a unity.
- Notes:
- "Previously published in hardcover as American apocalypse: the great fire and the myth of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1990)."--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252069145
- OCLC:
- 44039641
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