{"product_id":"sensing-chicago-9780252080753","title":"Sensing Chicago","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society, 2016.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Spices up what too often can be stale conversations about Chicago history, culture, and literature.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSensing Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is highly evocative, grabbing and keeping the readers' attention with deliciously colorful accounts of industrial Chicago's sensory life.\"--\u003ci\u003eSenses and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"A fascinating book. . . . Historians, prepare to reshuffle your notes!\"--Indiana Magazine of History\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Fills an important gap in urban social history, applying to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chicago the sensory attention that others have brought to bear on similar periods in cities such as New York, London, and Paris.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History Advance Access\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSensing Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is expertly researched yet accessible to readers of all backgrounds, and a welcome addition to public and college library urban history shelves.\"--\u003ci\u003eMidwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exemplary weaving together of sources. . . . A testament to the conjuring power of words.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSensing Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e, Mack tells the familiar story of Chicago's rise to preeminence from a different perspective. Asking the questions and employing the methods common to sensory history, Mack presents an alternative vision of life in the industrial metropolis.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Demonstrates how much of the sensory field of an earlier era can be reconstructed, and why doing so can be of interest.\"--Inside Higher Ed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSensing Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is courageous work in a new and theoretically fraught field. It will undoubtedly serve as an important springboard for future scholarship on how people interpreted the sensations created by the new urban environment.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSensing Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e is a carefully crafted book that enlivens our understanding of Gilded Age and Progressive Era Chicago. Mack's book will be appealing to historians of the Midwest, and will hopefully prompt scholars to pay closer attention to sensory history and to ask new questions about the region's peoples and culture.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A significant contribution to urban studies and a persuasive application of sensory history methods and questions to a particularly appropriate case study. It changes our understanding of the history and particularly the experience of life in the industrial city.\"--James R. Barrett, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Adam Mack puts the senses and sensations at the center of this vivid exploration of social distinction and the regulation of the noxious in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chicago. This highly evocative work in sensory studies highlights the politics of perception, the changing sensescape of the city, and some intriguing experiments in sensory rejuvenation.\"--David Howes, co-author of \u003ci\u003eWays of Sensing: Understanding the Senses in Society\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400498946391,"sku":"9780252080753","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252080753.jpg?v=1730470830","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sensing-chicago-9780252080753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}