Keating Ann Durkin The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago Before the Fire 9780226664521

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Автор: Keating Ann Durkin
Название: The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago Before the Fire
ISBN: 9780226664521
Издательство: Wiley
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Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Автобиографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Америк

ISBN-10: 022666452X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 07.11.2019
Серия: Historical studies of urban america
Язык: English
Размер: 231 x 138 x 22
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Chicago before the fire
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: When Juliette Kinzie first visited Chicago in 1831, it was anything but a city. An outpost in the shadow of Fort Dearborn, it had no streets, no sidewalks, no schools, no river-spanning bridges. And with two hundred disconnected residents, it lacked any sense of community. In the decades that followed, not only did Juliette witness the citys transition from Indian country to industrial center, but she was instrumental in its development.

Juliette is one of Chicagos forgotten founders. Early Chicago is often presented as a mans city, but women like Juliette worked to create an urban and urbane world, often within their own parlors. With The World of Juliette Kinzie, we finally get to experience the rise of Chicago from the view of one of its most important founding mothers.

Ann Durkin Keating, one of the foremost experts on nineteenth-century Chicago, offers a moving portrait of a trailblazing and complicated woman. Keating takes us to the corner of Cass and Michigan (now Wabash and Hubbard), Juliettes home base. Through Juliettes eyes, our understanding of early Chicago expands from a city of boosters and speculators to include the world women created in and between households. We see the development of Chicago society, first inspired by cities in the East and later coming into its own midwestern ways. We also see the city become a community, as it developed its intertwined religious, social, educational, and cultural institutions. Keating draws on a wealth of sources, including hundreds of Juliettes personal letters, allowing Juliette to tell much of her story in her own words.
Juliettes death in 1870, just a year before the infamous fire, seemed almost prescient. She left her beloved Chicago right before the physical city as she knew it vanished into the flames. But now her history lives on. The World of Juliette Kinzie offers a new perspective on Chicagos past and is a fitting tribute to one of the first women historians in the United States.

The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago Before the Fire, Keating Ann Durkin