Chicago Transformed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago Transformed write by Joseph Gustaitis. This book was released on 2016-07. Chicago Transformed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 14. "Taking New Heart": Organized Labor and the Postwar Strikes -- 15. "Eyes to the Future": Chicago in 1919 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Chicago from the Sky
Chicago from the Sky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago from the Sky write by Lawrence Okrent. This book was released on 2011. Chicago from the Sky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A pictorial history, from an aerial perspective, for the far-reaching change that has occurred in Chicago and its region in the span of a single generation, between 1985 and 2010. It serves as a reminder that Chicago welcomes change, celebrates change and regards change as one of its distinguishing features.
Family Properties
Family Properties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family Properties write by Beryl Satter. This book was released on 2010-03-02. Family Properties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the nation's worst ghettos and the target of Martin Luther King Jr.'s first campaign beyond the South. In this powerful book, Beryl Satter identifies the true causes of the city's black slums and the ruin of urban neighborhoods throughout the country: not, as some have argued, black pathology, the culture of poverty, or white flight, but a widespread and institutionalized system of legal and financial exploitation. In Satter's riveting account of a city in crisis, unscrupulous lawyers, slumlords, and speculators are pitched against religious reformers, community organizers, and an impassioned attorney who launched a crusade against the profiteers—the author's father, Mark J. Satter. At the heart of the struggle stand the black migrants who, having left the South with its legacy of sharecropping, suddenly find themselves caught in a new kind of debt peonage. Satter shows the interlocking forces at work in their oppression: the discriminatory practices of the banking industry; the federal policies that created the country's shameful "dual housing market"; the economic anxieties that fueled white violence; and the tempting profits to be made by preying on the city's most vulnerable population. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America is a monumental work of history, this tale of racism and real estate, politics and finance, will forever change our understanding of the forces that transformed urban America. "Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North."—David Garrow, The Washington Post
Shock Cities
Shock Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shock Cities write by Harold L. Platt. This book was released on 2005-05-22. Shock Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Not By Genes Alone
Not By Genes Alone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not By Genes Alone write by Peter J. Richerson. This book was released on 2008-06-20. Not By Genes Alone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics. Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come. “I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable.”—Robin Dunbar, Nature “Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities.”—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
