Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman / Carl Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Carl S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Disasters.

Fires--Illinois--Chicago--History--19th century.

Fires.

Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.

Pullman Strike, 1894.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.

Chicago (Ill.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman-these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of interconnected beliefs and actions that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of A

Contents:

Contents; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part One: Fire; 2. The Great Conflagration; 3. Trial by Fire; 4. Social Restraint; 5. The Fire and Cultural Memory; Part Two: Bomb; 6. From Resurrection to Insurrection; A gallery of photographs follows page; 7. Plots and Counterplots; 8. Words on Trial; Part Three: Strike; 9. Taming the Urban Beast; 10. Putting Pullman in Its Place: The Search for a New Urban Order; 11. Making Sense of the Age; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

476229918