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

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in...
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Author: Colin Fisher
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Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago by Fisher, Colin

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

CHF 74.35

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

CHF 74.35
Author: Colin Fisher
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.



Author: Colin Fisher
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/11/2015
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.21w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781469619958


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2015

About the Author
Fisher, Colin: - Colin Fisher is associate professor of history at the University of San Diego. He teaches classes in U.S. environmental history, environmental visual culture, and history of food. His research centers on landscape and minority cultures of nature.

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