Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman

by Carl Smith

Book Overview

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman--these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change.

In Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226764249
• ISBN13: 9780226764245
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"