Sensing Chicago
ebook ∣ Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers · Studies in Sensory History
By Adam Mack
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In Sensing Chicago, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five case studies: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park. His vivid recounting of the smells, sounds, and tactile miseries of city life reveals how input from the five human senses influenced the history of class, race, and ethnicity in the city. At the same time, he transports readers to an era before modern refrigeration and sanitation, when to step outside was to be overwhelmed by the odor and roar of a great city in progress.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Smelling Civic Peril: The Chicago Styx 2. Sensory Overload: The Chicago Fire, 1871 3. To Quiet the Roar of the Mob: George M. Pullman's Model Town 4. A Revolutionary and a Puritan: Upton Sinclair and The Jungle 5. Sensory Refreshment: The Other White City Notes Bibliography Index | Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society, 2016. — Illinois State Historical Society|Adam Mack is assistant professor of History in the Department of Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.