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Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

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 | #1386816 in Books |  2015-05-11 |  2015-05-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.10 x.62 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Guppy|Great read|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An enjoyable read|By B Johnson|Urban Green is an enjoyable read. It offers a colorful portrait of how the ethnic working class and African Americans retreated to and experienced nature in Chicago. I found the book to be an important counterbalan| |Cultural, social, and environmental historians will benefit from exploring a side of Chicago and of working-class culture that [have] remained hidden from view.--Journal of Social History||

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In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, ...

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