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PublisherRandom House Large Print

ISBN-100375409769

ISBN-139780375409769

eBay Product ID (ePID)1621628

Product Key Features

Book TitleAfter the Fire

Number of Pages544 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicSagas, Family Life, Thrillers / Suspense, General

FeaturesLarge Type

GenreFiction

AuthorBelva Plain

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight31.3 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-089000

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Belva Plain doesn't know how not to write a bestseller." --Newsday "Belva Plain is in a class by herself!" --The New York Times Don't miss these other bestselling novels by Belva Plain: Fortune's Hand Legacy of Silence Homecoming Secrecy Promises The Carousel Daybreak Whispers Treasures Harvest Blessings Tapestry The Golden Cup Crescent City Eden Burning Random Winds Evergreen Available from Dell

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition

Synopsis 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 worker class and the formation of an industrial upper class. Jentz and Schneirov demonstrate how a new political economy, based on wage labor and capital accumulation in manufacturing, superseded an older mercantile economy that relied on speculative trading and artisan production. The city's leading business interests were unable to stabilize their new system without the participation of the new working class, a German and Irish ethnic mix that included radical ideas transplanted from Europe. Jentz and Schneirov examine how debates over slave labor were transformed into debates over free labor as the city's wage-earning working class developed a distinctive culture and politics. The new social movements that arose in this era--labor, socialism, urban populism, businessmen's municipal reform, Protestant revivalism, and women's activism--constituted the substance of a new post-bellum democratic politics that took shape in the 1860s and '70s. When the Depression of 1873 brought increased crime and financial panic, Chicago's new upper class developed municipal reform in an attempt to reassert its leadership. Setting local detail against a national canvas of partisan ideology and the seismic structural shifts of Reconstruction, Chicago in the Age of Capital vividly depicts the upheavals integral to building capitalism.

LC Classification NumberPS3566.L254A69 2000