Sensing Chicago: noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers

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A hundred years and more ago, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In this book, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth cent…

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Full title :Sensing Chicago : noisemakers, strikebreakers, and muckrakers / Adam Mack.

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Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
Place of Publication:Urbana
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780252097225, 025209722X
oclc:ocn909028388
LC Classification:F548.3
Dewey Decimal:977.3/1103

Smelling civic peril: the Chicago Styx -- Sensory overload: the Chicago Fire, 1871 -- To quiet the roar of the mob: George M. Pullman's model town -- A revolutionary and a puritan: Upton Sinclair and The jungle -- Sensory refreshment: the other white city.

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Chicago (Ill.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle Chicago (Ill.) -- Histoire -- 20e siècle Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th centu… Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th centu… Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- … Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- … History HISTORY -- Social History HISTORY -- State & Local -- United Stat… Illinois -- Chicago Sens et sensations -- Histoire -- 19e s… Sens et sensations -- Histoire -- 20e s… Senses and sensation Senses and sensation -- History -- 19th… Senses and sensation -- History -- 20th… Social conditions