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This colorful and perceptive study presents persuasive evidence that the saloon, far from being a magnet for vice and crime, played an important role in working-class community life. Focusing on public drinking in ''wide open'' Chicago and tightly controlled Boston, Duis offers a provocative discussion of the saloon as a social institution and a ......
George E. Stephens, the most important African-American war correspondent of his era, served in the famed black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, subject of the film Glory. His letters from the front, published in the New York Weekly Anglo-African, brilliantly detail two wars: one against the Confederacy and one against the brutal, debilitating ......
With a major port on the Great Lakes, an extensive network of railroads and canals, and a river system including the Mississippi, the Illinois, and the Ohio, Illinois has long played a critical role in linking East Coast industrial cities, the agricultural heartland, and the Gulf Coast. Writing in a fast-paced, down-to-earth style, Lois Carrier ......
At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is ever more important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical, ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine protectable human life?Following immediately on the publication of his highly praised book Choosing Who's to Live, James Walters ......
''What will make this volume's reputation as an important book is the author's use of economic evidence and methodology to produce important insights into behavior and attitudes.'' -- James C. Riley, author of International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740-1815 Using the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage as a window through ......
This pioneer work in a complex, interdisciplinary, and still-developing field explores the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to evaluating environmental programs. Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, management, planning, sociology, political science, and public administration provide coherent, integrated ......
When Miller Williams read his Inaugural Poem, ''Of History and Hope,'' to a world-wide audience in January, his proverbial ''fifteen minutes of fame'' lasted far less--somewhere between three and four minutes. That was long enough to make a big impact on many. Said poet Paul Zimmer, one of the millions in his viewing audience, ''I came up out of ......
A surefire cure for the headaches and stomach upsets of the twenty-first century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the last century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might ......
The Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for ''vividly describ[ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner.''Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in ......
