Smoldering City Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874

Name: Smoldering City Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
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ISBN: 9780226735481

ISBN-10: 0226735486

ISBN-13: 9780226735481

Edition: 1995

Authors: Karen Sawislak

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The fateful kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the wild flight before the flames, the astonishingly quick rebuilding--these are the well-known stories of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But as much as Chicago's recovery from disaster was a remarkable civic achievement, the Great Fire is also the story of a city's people divided and at odds. This is the story that Karen Sawislak tells so revealingly in this book. In a detailed account, drawn on memoirs, private correspondences, and other documents, Sawislak chronicles years of widespread, sometimes bitter, social and political conflict in the fire's wake, from fights over relief soup kitchens to cries against profiteering and marches on city hall…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 403
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.188



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Barriers Burned



Relief, Aid, and Order



Burdens and Boundaries



The Meanings of Cooperation



Laws and Order


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index