An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition

by Arnold Lewis

Book Overview

Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society

Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also contains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025206965X
• ISBN13: 9780252069659
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"