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9780252074158 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Challenging Chicago

  • Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920
  • During an unprecedented period of rapid growth, the burgeoning metropolis of Chicago quickly became a “concentration of risk: far more congested, dangerous, unpleasant, immoral, and unhealthy than newcomers had anticipated. Through vignettes and real-life stories, Challenging Chicago reveals lower- and middle-class peoples' strategies for coping ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780252074158 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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    AUD $54.99
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2007
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  • Categories: Sociology [JHB]
9780252067815 Academic Inspection Copy
  • The Saloon

  • Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920
  • 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 ......
  • ISBN-13: 9780252067815 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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    AUD $95.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1998
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  • Categories: History [HB]
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