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An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition
University of Illinois Press, 1997 Cloth: 978-0-252-02305-7 | Paper: 978-0-252-06965-9 Library of Congress Classification NA735.C4L49 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 720.977311
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Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also contains an extensive bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers who sought the implications for European culture in what Asa Briggs called the "shock city" of the western world. See other books on: Architecture and society | Buildings, structures, etc | Chicago (Ill.) | Europeans | Tomorrow See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS
University of Illinois Press, 1997
Cloth: 978-0-252-02305-7
Paper: 978-0-252-06965-9
Cloth: 978-0-252-02305-7
Paper: 978-0-252-06965-9
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society
Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also contains an extensive bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers who sought the implications for European culture in what Asa Briggs called the "shock city" of the western world.
Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, An Early Encounter with Tomorrow documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also contains an extensive bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers who sought the implications for European culture in what Asa Briggs called the "shock city" of the western world.
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