Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920

ISBN-13: 9780252074158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 430 str.

Perry R. Duis

Opis

During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a "concentration of risk". Through vignettes and real-life stories, this work reveals lower and middle-class peoples' strategies for coping with technology, crowding, anonymity, and other urban ills.