Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief : The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman, Second Edition / Carl Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Carl, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters.

History.

Social Science.

Local Subjects:

Disasters.

History.

Social Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]

Language Note:

In 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 Americans. Examining a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events-and the public awareness of them-not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans understood, and continue to understand, Chicago and modern urban life. This classic of urban cultural history is updated with a foreword by the author that expands our understanding of urban disorder to encompass such recent examples as Hurricane Katrina, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and 9/11. "Cultural history at its finest. By utilizing questions and methodologies of urban studies, social history, and literary history, Smith creates a sophisticated account of changing visions of urban America."-Robin F. Bachin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The Great Conflagration

3. Trial by Fire

4. Social Restraint

5. The Fire and Cultural Memory

6. From Resurrection to Insurrection

7. Plots and Counterplots

8. Words on Trial

9. Taming the Urban Beast

10. Putting Pullman in Its Place

11. Making Sense of the Age

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9781281966537

1281966533

9780226764252

0226764257

OCLC:

476229918