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A Wild Kind of Boldness: The Chicago History Reader, Composed of thirty-five articles that appeared in the widely respected quarterly of the Chicago Historical Society between 1974 and 1996, this one-volume history chronicles each major period in the city's development from a frontier outpost to a great met, A Wild Kind of Boldness: The Chicago History Reader
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  • A Wild Kind of Boldness: The Chicago History Reader
  • Written by author Rosemary K. Adams
  • Published by Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company, 8/1/1998
  • Composed of thirty-five articles that appeared in the widely respected quarterly of the Chicago Historical Society between 1974 and 1996, this one-volume history chronicles each major period in the city's development from a frontier outpost to a great met
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Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Pt. I The Rise of a Commercial City
The Launching of Chicago: The Situation and the Site (Summer 1980) 3
To Be the Central City: Chicago, 1848-57 (Fall 1981) 14
Goodbye, Madora Beaubien: The Americanization of Early Chicago Society (Summer 1980) 24
Early Days on the Illinois & Michigan Canal (Winter 1974-75) 37
A Furor of Benevolence (Winter 1986-87) 46
Pt. II Industrialization and Immigration
Smoldering City (Winter 1988-89) 59
Chicago's Great Upheaval of 1877 (Spring 1980) 81
Cataclysm and Cultural Consciousness: Chicago and the Haymarket Trial (Summer 1986) 96
Upstairs-Downstairs in Chicago 1870-1907: The Glessner Household (Winter 1977-78) 110
Chicago's Ethnics and the Politics of Accommodation (Fall 1974) 123
Pt. III The Progressive Era
Everything under One Roof: World's Fairs and Department Stores in Paris and Chicago (Fall 1983) 135
The Creation of Chicago's Sanitary District and Construction of the Sanitary and Ship Canal (Summer 1979) 153
Jens Jensen and Columbus Park (Winter 1975-76) 166
The Result of Honest Hard Work: Creating a Suburban Ethos for Evanston (Summer 1984) 176
Walkout: The Chicago Men's Garment Workers' Strike, 1910-11 (Winter 1979-80) 190
Hull-House as Women's Space (Winter 1983) 201
Samuel Insull and the Electric City (Spring 1986) 215
Being Born in Chicago (Winter 1986-87) 227
Antilabor Mercenaries or Defenders of Public Order (Fall-Winter 1991-92) 239
Don't Shake - Salute! (Fall-Winter 1990-91) 256
Pt. IV The Chicago Cultural Renaissance
Pleasure Garden on the Midway (Fall-Winter 1987-88) 271
H. L. Mencken and Literary Chicago (Summer 1985) 284
"Ain't We Got Fun?" (Winter 1985-86) 298
The Saloon in a Changing Chicago (Winter 1975-76) 313
Claude A. Barnett and the Associated Negro Press (Spring 1983) 324
James T. Farrell and Washington Park: The Novel as Social History (Summer 1979) 338
Pt. V Chicago in Modern Times
The Enduring Chicago Machine (Spring 1986) 351
"Rent Reasonable to Right Parties": Gold Coast Apartment Building, 1906-1929 (Summer 1979) 361
Crisis and Community: The Back of the Yards 1921 (Fall 1977) 371
The Brotherhood (Fall 1996) 381
The Giant Jewel: Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair (July 1993) 391
Chicago and the Bungalow Boom of the 1920s (Summer 1981) 401
"Big Red in Bronzeville": Mayor Ed Kelly Reels in the Black Vote (Summer 1981) 410
The Siting of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle: A Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s (Winter 1980-81) 422
Staging the Avant-Garde (Spring-Summer 1988) 435
Index 450


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