Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction

by John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov

Book Overview

In this sweeping interpretive history of mid-nineteenth-century Chicago, historians John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov boldly trace the evolution of a modern social order. Combining a mastery of historical and political detail with a sophisticated theoretical frame, Jentz and Schneirov examine the dramatic capitalist transition in Chicago during the critical decades from the 1850s through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036832
• ISBN13: 9780252036835
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"