Research Catalog

Title

American apocalypse : the great fire and the myth of Chicago / Ross Miller.

Author

Miller, Ross.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

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Details

Description

ix, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Asks why the Chicago Fire is emblematic, how it achieved mythic proportions, and how modern myths are created.

Subject

• 1871
• Geschichte 1871-1900
• Geschichte 1871
• Architecture > Conservation and restoration > Illinois > Chicago
• Architecture > Mutilation, defacement, etc. > Illinois > Chicago
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > History
• Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire
• Architecture > Conservation et restauration > Illinois > Chicago
• Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > 19e siècle
• Architecture > Mutilation > Illinois > Chicago
• Architecture
• Architecture > Conservation and restoration
• Architecture > Mutilation, defacement, etc
• Brandkatastrophe
• Buildings
• Wiederaufbau
• Branden
• Rampen
• Chicago (Ill.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Chicago (Ill.) > Constructions
• Chicago (Ill.) > Incendie, 1871
• Chicago, Ill
• Illinois > Chicago

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-272).

Contents

Introduction -- The Chicago fire: the making of a legend -- Reluctant modernism: the past as present -- Derrick time: architecture, memory, and the poetics of ruin -- The fire as image: architecture and the problem of loss -- The shanty and the skyscraper -- Wright's piano: imagining the new Chicago -- Chicago black and white: the court, the university, the Midway, and the street.

ISBN

0226525996 (alk. paper)

LCCN

89020338

OCLC

• 20392822
• ocm20392822
• SCSB-1749574

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library