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Paperback A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform Book

ISBN: 0814256996

ISBN13: 9780814256992

A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform

(Part of the Urban Life and Urban Landscape Series)

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The eyes of the country frequently turned to Chicago during the 1890s as the Windy City struggled with the promises and challenges of urban democracy. Americans of all classes feared the social dislocations and economic divisions of urbanization and industrialization, and the effects of political corruption and massive immigration on democratic politics. Yet many reformers were hopeful that new forms of social knowledge and urban reform could reinvigorate...

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