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City of American dreams : a history of home ownership and housing reform in Chicago, 1871-1919
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- Creator
- Margaret Garb
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xv, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0226282090, 9780226282091
- OCLC
- ocm58600096
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-251) and index.
- Equal rights, equal property -- Staking a claim in the industrializing city -- Health, morality, and housing -- Cleanliness and capital investments -- Selling health, independence, and home ownership -- Reforming the family home and improving neighborhoods -- Drawing the "color line" : the roots of residential segregation