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Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History - Softcover

Cain, Louis P.

 
9780252088698: Chicago Before the Fire: An Economic History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252088697 ISBN 13: 9780252088698
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a fur trading post to a thriving city. Louis P. Cain's economic history places pre-1871 Chicago within the narrative of national expansion and examines infrastructure, finance, and other areas of city life. Business histories tell the story of fortunes made with essential products like meat and grain. Sketches of titans like William Ogden and Cyrus McCormick reveal how real estate, farm equipment, and other industries became engines of local growth. Cain also details public health improvements that made Lake Michigan safe as a water supply while census data informs a portrait of Chicago's population and the lives of the free Blacks and Irish immigrants at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.

Panoramic and up to date, Chicago before the Fire looks at how an intersection of geography, vision, and investment built a great American city.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Louis P. Cain is an adjunct professor of economics at Northwestern University and a professor emeritus at Loyola University Chicago. He is the coauthor of The Children of Eve: Population and Well-being in History.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252088697
ISBN 13 
9780252088698
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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