Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 - Hardcover

Duis, Perry R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252023943 ISBN 13: 9780252023941

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

Provides details of life in Chicago for lower- and middle-class people, from 1837 to 1920.

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Review

"Not only is Challenging Chicago a model of how to turn a collection of articles into a book, it is one of the best books ever written about Chicago... Duis has mastered an incredible amount of information (the illustrations and endnotes are worth the price of the book)... After reading Challenging Chicago you will never again look at the urban landscape -- the streets, the river, the warehouses, the neighborhoods, the houses and the architecture -- without seeing the remains of the city that once was, and without thinking of the people who lived there." -- James L. Swanson, Chicago Tribune "A fascinating glimpse at the excitement as well as the dangers and risks of life in one of the world's great industrial cities... Chicago, a tough, wonderful place, finds expression in Duis's fascinating book." -- James R. Barrett, The Historian

About the Author

Perry R. Duis, a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of Chicago: Creating New Traditionsand other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252023943
• ISBN 13: 9780252023941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448