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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elaine Lewinnek (Associate Profesor of American Studies, Associate Profesor of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 15.50cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780199769223ISBN 10: 0199769222 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 05 June 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: ""Chicago is America's Dream, Writ Large"": Forging the Suburban Dream in Early Chicago 1. ""Vast and Sudden Municipality"": Boosting and Lamenting Chicago's Growth 2. ""Domestic and Respectable"": Property-Owner Politics after the Great Chicago Fire 3. Lake and Jungle: The Assembly-line Factory as a Force for Suburbanization 4. ""Better than a Bank for a Poor Man"": Worker's Strategies for Home Financing 5. Mapping Chicago, Imagining Metropolises: Reconsidering the Zonal Model of Urban Growth 6. The Mortgages of Whiteness: Chicago's Race Riots of 1919 Conclusion: The City of the Twentieth Century Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews"""In her outstanding new book...Elaine Lewinnek explores the fascinating complexity of how Chicago's suburbs have been defined and how they have evolved...Lewinnek has written one of the best books about Chicago in a long time, and reading it will reward any working or thinking man or woman interested in Chicago, or its suburbs, old or new.""--Chicago Tribune ""This book provides readers with an insightful case study of patterns of human habitation in metropolitan Chicago...Among the strengths of this study is its determination to place race in its storyline...Lewinnek unflinchingly and deftly manages to integrate race into a broader, much-welcomed demographic context...[A]n insightful, thought-provoking, and highly readable book.""--Journal of Interdisciplinary History ""Lewinnek...adds to the scholarly chorus proclaiming the mixed origins of America's suburbs and the diverse factors molding their development.""--Journal of American History ""The Working Man's Reward is a welcome contribution to the history of Chicago and an insightful reminder that the difference between urban and suburban culture can be surprisingly fluid.""--American Historical Review ""In the late nineteenth century, before homeownership had become the aspiration of all Americans, it was the particular dream of workers and immigrants. Nowhere was this was more true than in the boom town of the era, Chicago. Drawing imaginatively on an impressive range of sources, in The Working Man's Reward Elaine Lewinnek shows how dreams shaped the place.""--Richard Harris, McMaster University ""Well before sunbelt cities like Los Angeles, Chicago was setting national trends as a suburban metropolis. Elaine Lewinnek brilliantly shows how suburban diversity always defined this history. In this exceptionally rich rendering of the working-class suburban experience, Lewinnek has produced a paragon of the new suburban history.""--Becky Nicolaides, author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 ""Elaine Lewinnek has found new and fascinating things to say about Chicago. Detailing the practicalities and politics of housing during Chicago's great boom decades, this study gives the creation of Chicago's working class neighborhoods pride of place in the city's history. It simultaneously makes an exciting contribution to American intellectual history by revealing the multiple ways in which Chicagoans ranging from real estate promoters to scholars and novelists understood the contested meanings of these so-called 'ordinary' neighborhoods."" --Carl Abbott, author of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America" In her outstanding new book ... Elaine Lewinnek explores the fascinating complexity of how Chicago's suburbs have been defined and how they have evolved ... Lewinnek has written one of the best books about Chicago in a long time, and reading it will reward any working or thinking man or woman interested in Chicago, or its suburbs, old or new. Chicago Tribune Lewinnek ... adds to the scholarly chorus proclaiming the mixed origins of America's suburbs and the diverse factors molding their development. Journal of American History This book provides readers with an insightful case study of patterns of human habitation in metropolitan Chicago ... Among the strengths of this study is its determination to place race in its storyline ... Lewinnek unflinchingly and deftly manages to integrate race into a broader, much-welcomed demographic context ... [An] insightful, thought-provoking, and highly readable book. Journal of Interdisciplinary History The Working Man's Reward is a welcome contribution to the history of Chicago and an insightful reminder that the difference between urban and suburban culture can be surprisingly fluid. American Historical Review In the late nineteenth century, before homeownership had become the aspiration of all Americans, it was the particular dream of workers and immigrants. Nowhere was this was more true than in the boom town of the era, Chicago. Drawing imaginatively on an impressive range of sources, in The WorkingMan's Reward Elaine Lewinnek shows how dreams shaped the place. --Richard Harris, McMaster University Well before sunbelt cities like Los Angeles, Chicago was setting national trends as a suburban metropolis. Elaine Lewinnek brilliantly shows how suburban diversity always defined this history. In this exceptionally rich rendering of the working-class suburban experience, Lewinnek has produced a paragon of the new suburban history. --Becky Nicolaides, author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 Elaine Lewinnek has found new and fascinating things to say about Chicago. Detailing the practicalities and politics of housing during Chicago's great boom decades, this study gives the creation of Chicago's working class neighborhoods pride of place in the city's history. It simultaneously makes an exciting contribution to American intellectual history by revealing the multiple ways in which Chicagoans ranging from real estate promoters to scholars and novelists understood the contested meanings of these so-called 'ordinary' neighborhoods. --Carl Abbott, author of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America Author InformationElainne Lewinnek is Associate Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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