Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief
Subtitle: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780226764177
Subjects: Social impact of disasters; Urban communities; Social Science; Sociology; USA; General; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / 19th Century; Social Science / General; 19th century; Chicago; Chicago (Ill.); Disasters; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886; History; Illinois; Social conditions
First sentence: This book examines the imaginative dimensions of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the celebrated model town of Pullman, Illinois, from its founding in 1880 to the famous strike of 1894.