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Urban green : nature, recreation, and the working class in industrial Chicago / Colin Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Colin (Robert Colin), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Leisure.
- Nature--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Nature.
- Parks--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Parks.
- Outdoor recreation--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Outdoor recreation.
- Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Working class.
- Immigrants--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Immigrants.
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- Nature--Social aspects.
- Parks--Social aspects.
- History.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Introduction: the Lithuanian worker and the Lake Michigan dunes
- Where Chicagoans found nature: an expedition with Leonard Dubkin, "Urban Ranger"
- Immigrants in "nature's nation"
- Turf: working-class ethnic youth culture and green space
- "The Negro speaks of rivers": African Americans and nature
- The nature of May Day: green space and working-class Chicago
- Conclusion: what we can learn from Chicago's cultures of nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469619958
- 1469619954
- OCLC:
- 893452590
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