Liquid Capital : : Making the Chicago Waterfront / / Joshua A. T. Salzmann.
In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan into an intensively managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago, now America's third-most populous city. In Liquid Capital, Joshua A. T. Salzmann shows how, thr...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Business, Politics, and Society
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. State Power and the Rise of Chicago
- Chapter 1. Making a River Run Through It
- Chapter 2. The Legal Construction of Free Marketplaces
- Chapter 3. The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor
- Chapter 4. Beauty and the Crisis of Commercial Civilization
- Chapter 5. A Public Pier for Pleasure and Profit
- Epilogue. A Waterscape for the New Millennium
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments