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City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780822946311 |
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Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Publication date: | 10/06/2020 |
Series: | Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ Series |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 360 |
Sales rank: | 777,996 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction William C. Barnett 3
Part I Where Prairie Meets Lake 15
1 Native peoples in the Tallgrass prairies of Illinois Robert Morrissey 17
2 Cholera and the Evolution of Early Chicago Ann Durkin Keating Kathleen A. Brosnan 26
3 Animals at Work in Industrializing Chicago Katherine Macica 38
Part II A Freshwater City 49
4 An Inland Sea? Coming to Terms with Lake Michigan in Nineteenth-Century Chicago Theodore J. Karamanski 51
5 Cleansing Chicago: Environmental Control and the Reversal of The Chicago River Matthew Corpolongo 64
6 Too Much Water: Coping with Climate Change and Suburban Sprawl in a Flood-Prone Environment Harold L. Platt 78
7 Water, Oil, and Fish: The Chicago River as a Technological Matrix of Place Daniel Macfarlane Lynne Heasley 91
Part III The Mature of Working-Class Chicagoans 108
8 May Day: The Green Vision of Chicago's Gilded Age Anarchists Colin Fisher 110
9 Black Migrant Foodways in the "Hog Butcher for the World" Brian McCammack 125
10 "No Cheerful Patches of Green": Mexican Community and the Industrial Environment on the Far Southeast Side of Chicago Michael Innis-Jiménez 137
11 Work Relief Labor in the Cook County Forest Preserves, 1931-1942 Natalie Bump Vena 150
A Cartographic Interlude 165
12 Maps and Chicago's Environmental History Peter Nekola James R. Akerman 175
Part IV Managing (Or Not) Urban-Industrial Complexity 189
13 Blood on the Tracks: Accidental Death and the Built Environment Joshua A. T. Salzmann 191
14 Air and Water Pollution in the Urban-Industrial Nexus: Chicago, 1840s-1970s Steven H. Corey 203
15 Chicago's Wastelands: Refuse Disposal and Urban Growth, 1840-1990 Craig E. Colten 221
16 Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American Women and the Birth of the Urban Conservation Movement in Chicago, 1917-1954 Sylvia Hood Washington 240
Part V Reenvisioning the Lake and Prairie 254
17 May Theilgaard Watts and the Origins of the Illinois Prairie Path William C. Barnett 256
18 "Hard-Nosed Professionals": Gordon Sherman, Businessmen for the Public Interest, and Environmentalism in 1970s Chicago Robert Gioielli 269
19 The Calumet Region: A Line in the Sand Mark Bouman 286
Notes 301
Contributors 383
Index 385