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The Transformation of Rural Life
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 73.50Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change. Adams identifies contradictions... more...
City Watch
University of Iowa Press 2001; US$ 20.00In forty-five years as one of Chicago's liveliest journalists for Time, Life, and the Chicago Tribune, Jon Anderson has established a reputation for picking up on what someone once called "the beauty of the specific fact." Part "Talk of the Town," part On the Road with Charles Kuralt, Anderson's twice-a-week "City Watch" columns in the Chicago Tribune... more...
Life Lines
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 59.99This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants. more...
Chicago's New Negroes
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 28.95As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and other black cultural and communal institutions. Davarian Baldwin argues that this mass consumer... more...
The Underground Railroad in DeKalb County, Illinois
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00This book is about previously unidentified people who became Abolitionists involved in the antislavery movement from about 1840 to 1860. Although arrests were made in nearby counties, not one person was prosecuted for aiding a fugitive slave in DeKalb County, Illinois. First, the area Congregationalist, Universalist, Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist... more...
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 42.00What really happened in Mrs. O'Leary's barn that autumn night in Chicago? Though no one knows for sure, what is certain is someone, or something, ignited a load of hay on fire, and the city of Chicago would never be the same. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 raged for more than 24 hours, obliterating the downtown and sparking a mass exodus to... more...
Frommer'sŪ Chicago 2007
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go -- they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. more...
Frommer's Chicago 2008
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007; US$ 17.99According to Chicago's Convention and Tourism Bureau, the city had 18.1 million domestic tourists in 2006. Chicago was voted third-best U.S. city by Travel + Leisure readers. more...
Frommer's Chicago
Wiley 2011; US$ 19.99Full Color Throughout! Plus a free, full-color foldout Map. Insider advice on Chicago's burgeoning dining scene, which includes rising stars like Grant Achatz, as well as the best spots to sunbathe by the lake, take in famous artworks, such as Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and where to find the best live blues. Where to find the best deep... more...
Frommer's Portable Chicago
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 10.99Frommer’s Portable Guides offer all the detailed information and insider advice of a Frommer’s Complete Guide--but in a concise, pocket-sized format. Perfect for the short-term traveler who insists on value and doesn’t want to wade through or carry a full-size guidebook, this series selects the very best choices in all price categories... more...









