City of big shoulders : a history of Chicago /
Spinney, Robert G.
City of big shoulders : a history of Chicago / Robert G. Spinney. - Second edition. - Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Early World of Chigagou, 1600-1750 -- Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750-1835 -- Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835-1850 -- Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850-1890 -- Life in a City on the Make, 1850-1900 -- The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871-1893 -- The New Immigration, 1880-1920 -- Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890-1915 -- World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915-1929 -- The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929-1955 -- Richard J. Daley and The City That Works, 1955-1976 -- The Transitions of the Post-Daley Years, 1976-1997 -- Glamorous and Grim : Chicago in the Twenty-First-Century.
"This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-not only the tycoons and the politicians but also the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world who have kept the city working"--
9781501748349 9781501748356
2019029259
Electronic Books.
F548 / .C589 2020
City of big shoulders : a history of Chicago / Robert G. Spinney. - Second edition. - Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The Early World of Chigagou, 1600-1750 -- Chigagou Becomes Chicago, 1750-1835 -- Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Early Chicago, 1835-1850 -- Chicago Conquers the Midwest, 1850-1890 -- Life in a City on the Make, 1850-1900 -- The Fire, the Bomb, and the Fair, 1871-1893 -- The New Immigration, 1880-1920 -- Progressivism and Urban Reform, 1890-1915 -- World War I and the Roaring Twenties, 1915-1929 -- The Great Depression, World War II, and Suburban Growth, 1929-1955 -- Richard J. Daley and The City That Works, 1955-1976 -- The Transitions of the Post-Daley Years, 1976-1997 -- Glamorous and Grim : Chicago in the Twenty-First-Century.
"This compact yet comprehensive account of Chicago's history links key events in the city's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Robert Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city-not only the tycoons and the politicians but also the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world who have kept the city working"--
9781501748349 9781501748356
2019029259
Electronic Books.
F548 / .C589 2020