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  1. As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
    As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
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  3. The Electric City
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  4. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France (Women in Culture & Society S.)
    Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France (Women in Culture & Society S.)
  5. Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
    Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
  6. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864
    Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864
  7. Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century
    Catastrophe and Meaning: The Holocaust and the Twentieth Century
  8. People of Plenty (Phoenix Books)
    People of Plenty (Phoenix Books)
  9. Two Evenings in Saramaka: Afro-American Tale-telling in the Surinam Rain Forest
    Two Evenings in Saramaka: Afro-American Tale-telling in the Surinam Rain Forest
  10. Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America S.)
    Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America S.)
  11. Importing the European Army: Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European World
    Importing the European Army: Introduction of European Military Techniques and Institutions into the Extra-European World
  12. Cumbe Reborn: Andean Ethnography of History
    Cumbe Reborn: Andean Ethnography of History
  13. Striking a Balance: Making National Economic Policy
    Striking a Balance: Making National Economic Policy
  14. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
    The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality
  15. Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from "Technology and Culture"
    Technology and American History: A Historical Anthology from "Technology and Culture"
  16. The Transformation of Authorship in America
    The Transformation of Authorship in America
  17. The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
    The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
  18. Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436 (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe S.)
    Life and Death in a Venetian Convent: The Chronicle and Necrology of Corpus Domini, 1395-1436 (Other Voice in Early Modern Europe S.)
  19. The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life
    The Culture of Islam: Changing Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Life
  20. The Cholera Years: United States in the Years 1832, 1849 and 1866
    The Cholera Years: United States in the Years 1832, 1849 and 1866
  21. May '68 and Its Afterlives
    May '68 and Its Afterlives
  22. The Dark Abyss of Time: History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico
    The Dark Abyss of Time: History of the Earth and the History of Nations from Hooke to Vico
  23. From Market-places to a Market Economy: Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850
    From Market-places to a Market Economy: Transformation of Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1850
  24. Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
    Music and Musical Thought in Early India (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology)
  25. The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
    The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery
As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
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    		As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
    Bessie Louise Pierce
    Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 0226668215

    Book Description

    Sometimes it takes an outsider to capture the essence of an individual place. The impressions of travelers in particular have a special allure--unanticipated and serendipitous, their views get to the heart of a particular region because nothing to them is routine or expected.

    First published in 1933 by the University of Chicago Press to mark the occasion of the Century of Progress Exhibition, As Others See Chicago consists of writings culled from over a thousand men and women who visited the city and commented on the best and worst it had to offer, from the skyscrapers to the stockyards. Originally compiled by Bessie Louise Pierce, the first major historian of Chicago, and featuring her own incisive commentary, the volume brings together the impressions of visitors to Chicago over two and a half centuries, from the early years of Westward Expansion to the height of the Great Depression. In addition to writings from better known personalities such as Rudyard Kipling and Waldo Frank, the book collects the opinions of missionaries, aristocrats, journalists, and politicians--observers who were perfectly placed to comment on the development of the city, its inhabitants, and well known events that would one day define Chicago history, such as the Great Fire of 1871 and the 1893 World's Fair.

    Taking us back to a time when Chicago was "more astonishing than the wildest visions of the most vagrant imaginations," As Others See Chicago offers an enthralling portrait of an enduring American metropolis.

    As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
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      		As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
      Joe L. Norris, Perry R. Duis Bessie Louise Pierce
      Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000OQ3C3C
      As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
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        		As Others See Chicago: Impressions of Visitors, 1673-1933
        Bessie Pierce; Louise
        Manufacturer: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover
        ASIN: B000OJN27K

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