City of lake and prairie : Chicago's environmental history / William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, and Ann Durkin Keating, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnett, William C., editor.

Brosnan, Kathleen A., 1960- editor.

Keating, Ann Durkin, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

History of the urban environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Chicago (Ill.)--Environmental conditions--History.

Chicago (Ill.).

Urban ecology (Sociology)--Illinois--Chicago.

Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Where Prairie Meets Lake p. 15

1 Native Peoples in the Tallgrass Prairies of Illinois p. 17 / Robert Morrissey

2 Cholera and the Evolution of Early Chicago p. 26 / Ann Durkin Keating and Kathleen A. Brosnan

3 Animals at Work in Industrializing Chicago p. 38 / Katherine Macica

Part II A Freshwater City p. 49

4 An Inland Sea? Coming to Terms with Lake Michigan in Nineteenth-Century Chicago p. 51 / Theodore J. Karamanski

5 Cleansing Chicago: Environmental Control and the Reversal of the Chicago River p. 64 / Matthew Corpolongo

6 Too Much Water: Coping with Climate Change and Suburban Sprawl in a Flood-Prone Environment p. 78 / Harold L. Platt

7 Water, Oil, and Fish: The Chicago River as a Technological Matrix of Place p. 91 / Daniel Macfarlane and Lynne Heasley

Part III The Nature of Working-Class Chicagoans p. 108

8 May Day: The Green Vision of Chicago's Gilded Age Anarchists p. 110 / Colin Fisher

9 Black Migrant Foodways in the "Hog Butcher for the World" p. 125 / Brian McCammack

10 "No Cheerful Patches of Green": Mexican Community and the Industrial Environment on the Far Southeast Side of Chicago p. 137 / Michael Innis-Jiménez

11 Work Relief Labor in the Cook County Forest Preserves, 1931-1942 p. 150 / Natalie Bump Vena

A Cartographic Interlude p. 165

12 Maps and Chicago's Environmental History p. 175 / Peter Nekola and James R. Akerman

Part IV Managing (Or Not) Urban-Industrial Complexity p. 189

13 Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment p. 191 / Joshua A. T. Salzmann

14 Air and Water Pollution in the Urban-Industrial Nexus: Chicago, 1840s-1970s p. 203 / Steven H. Corey

15 Chicago's Wastelands: Refuse Disposal and Urban Growth, 1840-1990 p. 221 / Craig E. Colten

16 Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American Women and the Birth of the Urban Conservation Movement in Chicago, 1917-1954 p. 240 / Sylvia Hood Washington

Part V Reenvisioning the Lake and Prairie p. 254

17 May Theilgaard Watts and the Origins of the Illinois Prairie Path p. 256 / William C. Barnett

18 "Hard-Nosed Professionals": Gordon Sherman, Businessmen for the Public Interest, and Environmentalism in 1970s Chicago p. 269 / Robert Gioielli

19 The Calumet Region: A Line in the Sand p. 286 / Mark Bouman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822987727

0822987724

Publisher Number:

99985208793

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Restricted for use by site license.