City of the century : the epic of Chicago and the making of America
The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Miller traces Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900.
"The epic of Chicago is the story of the emergence of modern America. Miller traces Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900."@en
"Examines Chicago's nineteenth-century history, looking at its progress from a fur-trading post to a bustling city that burned to the ground in 1871, rising again by 1893 to become one of the greatest cities in America, with the busiest and most modern downtown in the country and over a dozen of the highest buildings ever constructed."@en
"A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s."
"A chronicle of the coming of the Industrial Age to one American city traces the explosive entrepreneurial, technological, and artistic growth that converted Chicago from a trading post to a modern industrial metropolis by the 1890s."@en
"This vol. is about Chicago's 19th century history."
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