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A History of Chicago, Volume I: The Beginning of a City 1673-1848 (History of Chicago)
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by Bessie Louise Pierce
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Cover Type: Paperback with 520 pages
Published by: University Of Chicago Press September 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0226668398
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0226668390
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
E.D. Branch New York Times : “With this rescue of its History from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”--E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
American Sociological Review : “The accomplishments of these rugged individualists against a multiplicity of handicaps, the vagaries of nature, the limitations of transportation facilities, the complications of early finance, the unfavorable balance of trade, and the hardships of just living are sufficient to gain the respect of all. May the succeeding volumes soon be forthcoming!”< American Sociological Review (1938)>
Ray Allen Billington American Historical Review : “Professor Pierce begins the third volume of her monumental History of Chicago with one of the most important episodes in the city’s history, the Great Fire of 1872. . . . Chicago was a city of contrasts and conflicts during those formative years, and these provide the theme that Miss Pierce develops so awesomely. . . . Professor Pierce has done more than capture the spirit of this rambunctious city in her exciting prose; she has written a case study of the changing American social order in one of its periods of greatest mobility. . . . [a] marvel. . . . virtually definitive.” Ray Allen Billington, American Historical Review (1957)
John Drury Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science : “Her work is of much wider significance than that of merely being the story of a single American city. What she has actually done is to provide us with a model urban history. . . . Professor Pierce is as much a pathfinder as any of the Chicago pioneers she describes in her volumes. But unlike some of the more outstanding of these pioneers, she will not have to be remembered in future years by a statue in a public park. Her monument is already in existence—the sound, basic masterwork in History she has been laboring on for more than a quarter of a century.” John Drury, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Patrick T. Reardon Chicago Tribune : "The magisterial, three-volume History . . . has been a touchstone . . . for anyone writing about early Chicago. It was also a pioneering work in academia, the first scholarly study of a large American city."
Book Description
The first major History of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great History over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893.
Originally conceived as a centennial History of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival.
Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America.
“With this rescue of its History from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
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