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Genre/Form: | Congress Conference papers and proceedings Actes de congrès |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Perry Duis |
ISBN: | 0252023943 9780252023941 0252074157 9780252074158 |
OCLC Number: | 37820146 |
Description: | xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Coping with a new sense of place -- Counting minutes and miles -- Housing strategies -- Living in the inherited city -- The risky business of food -- Eating out -- Reducing risk and taking control -- Amusements, crowds, and morals -- Chicago is work -- Getting ahead on your own -- Time, risk, and family finances -- The institutional trap -- Conclusion: Coping with urban life. |
Responsibility: | Perry R. Duis. |
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"Not only is Challenging Chicago a model of how to turn a collection of articles into a book, it is one of the best books ever written about Chicago... Duis has mastered an incredible amount of information (the illustrations and endnotes are worth the price of the book)... After reading Challenging Chicago you will never again look at the urban landscape -- the streets, the river, the warehouses, the neighborhoods, the houses and the architecture -- without seeing the remains of the city that once was, and without thinking of the people who lived there." -- James L. Swanson, Chicago Tribune "A fascinating glimpse at the excitement as well as the dangers and risks of life in one of the world's great industrial cities... Chicago, a tough, wonderful place, finds expression in Duis's fascinating book." -- James R. Barrett, The Historian Read more...


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