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

By Arnold Lewis

Book Overview

Illustrated with photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, this volume documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago. It also contains a bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers, who sought the implications for European culture in Chicago.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252023056
• ISBN13: 9780252023057
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.3" x 7.5"