Urban green : nature, recreation, and the working class in industrial Chicago / Colin Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Colin (Robert Colin)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Immigrants--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Immigrants.

Working class--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Working class.

Outdoor recreation--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Outdoor recreation.

Parks--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Parks.

Nature--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Nature.

Leisure--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Leisure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908452-5-2

979-88-908452-6-9

1-4696-1997-0

OCLC:

907238504