Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers

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Label

Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers

Title remainder

noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers

Statement of responsibility

Adam Mack

Creator

• Mack, Adam, 1973-

Author

• Mack, Adam, 1973-

Subject

• Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Social History
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | General
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
• History
• Illinois -- Chicago
• Senses and sensation
• Senses and sensation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century
• Senses and sensation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
• Senses and sensation -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 19th century
• Senses and sensation -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 20th century
• Social conditions
• 1800-1999
• Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

A hundred years and more ago, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In this book, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five events: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle', and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park

Member of

• Studies in sensory history

Cataloging source

N$T

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in sensory history