Weekly Book List, March 23, 2018

ANTHROPOLOGY

A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador by Alicia Sliwinski (McGill-Queen’s University Press; 251 pages; US$110 hardcover, US$29.95 paperback). Explores the experiences of 50 families in a Salvadoran town who were given different forms of aid in the aftermath of two earthquakes in early 2001.

Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform by Theresia Hofer (University of Washington Press; 304 pages; $90 hardcover, $30 paperback). A study of medical practitioners and “medical houses” in the west-central region of Tsang.

Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer by S.D. Gottlieb (Rutgers University Press; 224 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Combines medical anthropology and other perspectives in a study of marketing and other factors that have hindered the acceptance of a vaccine developed against human papillomavirus or HPV, the most common sexually-transmitted infection.

ARCHAEOLOGY

The Shore Is a Bridge: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Lake Ontario by Ben Ford (Texas A&M University Press; 304 pages; $75). Combines archaeology, history, and ethnography in a study of indigenous and later culture on the lake shore.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Picturing War in France, 1792--1856 by Katie Hornstein (Yale University Press; 208 pages; $70). Explores visual representations of war in realms from Salon exhibitions to weekly newspapers.

Thomas Hirschhorn: A New Political Understanding of Art? by Christina Braun, translated by Steven Lindberg (Dartmouth College Press/University Press of New England; 232 pages; $45). Translation of a 2013 German study of the Swiss installation artist (b. 1957) that explores the relationship between his politically engaged work and his artistic theories.

CLASSICAL STUDIES

The Elegies of Maximianus edited and translated by A.M. Juster (University of Pennsylvania Press; 240 pages; $65). Facing Latin text and English poetic translation of the complete elegies of the Roman poet, who lived during the sixth century AD; includes a commentary and translations of six additional poems attributed to Maximianus, as well as Middle English works that show his influence.

The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome by J.G. Manning (Princeton University Press; 448 pages; $35). Emphasizes economic variation in the region, along with interconnectedness.

COMMUNICATION

Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer (University of Illinois Press; 224 pages; $99 hardcover, $25.95 paperback). Discusses the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl, the sexual assault of Lara Logan, the death of Marie Colvin, and other occasions when print and television correspondents became the focus of public scrutiny because of incidents during reporting.

CRIMINOLOGY

Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People by Alexandra Cox (Rutgers University Press; 234 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Uses the juvenile-justice system of New York State as a case study of ideologies shaping the treatment of youth crime.

CULTURAL STUDIES

Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence by Amy Sodaro (Rutgers University Press; 226 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Offers comparative case studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; the House of Terror in Budapest; the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda; the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile; and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.

ECONOMICS

Measuring and Modeling Health Care Costs edited by Ana Aizcorbe and others (University of Chicago Press; 512 pages; $130). Research on such topics as prescription drug competition after the loss of U.S. patents, and the effects of obesity on health-care spending.

EDUCATION

Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher by Judson G. Everitt (Rutgers University Press; 222 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Offers a sociological perspective on teacher-education programs through a study of nearly 50 students completing their final year of training at a public university in the Midwest.

FILM STUDIES

Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film by Kristen Anderson Wagner (Wayne State University Press; 304 pages; $84.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Discusses Gale Henry, Louise Fazenda, Constance Talmadge, and other once wildly popular comedic actresses during the silent era.

Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska’s “The Last Stage” and the Politics of Commemoration by Marek Haltof (Northwestern University Press; 197 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Draws on previously untranslated Polish sources in a study of Ostatni etap, a 1948 film directed by Jakubowska, an Auschwitz survivor, that portrayed the Nazi camp and was shot on location.

GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom by Tison Pugh (Rutgers University Press; 280 pages; $95 hardcover, $28.95 paperback). Includes analyses of Leave It to Beaver, The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, Hannah Montana, and Modern Family.

HISTORY

Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America by Rachel Kranson (University of North Carolina Press; 216 pages; $90 hardcover, $27.50 paperback). Topics include Jewish religious, artistic, and intellectual leaders who expressed an ambivalence over Jews’ rising numbers in the middle class, warning of a potential disconnect with Jewish values and identity.

Birth in Ancient China: A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China by Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo (State University of New York Press; 158 pages; $75). Pays particular attention to the Chu ju, a recently discovered bamboo manuscript from the fourth century BC that links birthing to lineage creation and political identity.

Black Firefighters and the FDNY: The Struggle for Jobs, Justice, and Equity in New York City by David Goldberg (University of North Carolina Press; 424 pages; $34.95). Combines archival and oral-historical sources in a study of African-Americans’ efforts to secure jobs and equal opportunity in the city’s fire department since 1914.

Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Jamaicans in Britain and the Atlantic Family, 1733-1833 by Daniel Livesay (University of North Carolina Press; 432 pages; $45). Draws on wills, inheritance lawsuits, family correspondence, and other sources in a study of the experiences in Britain of children born in Jamaica to white planters and Caribbean women of color.

The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit by Brian James Leech (University of Nevada Press; 414 pages; $39.95). A social and environmental history of an open-pit copper mine that operated from 1955 to 1982 and is now a toxic lake and site of an ongoing federal clean-up.

Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia by Karen Cook Bell (University of South Carolina Press; 176 pages; $39.99). Examines the struggles of emancipated African-Americans in the low-country rice region with particular attention to Burroughs, Ga.

Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow by Daniel B. Thorp (University of Virginia Press; 304 pages; $39.50). Focuses on Montgomery County, Va., in a study of the neglected history of African-Americans in southern Appalachia.

The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s by Peter B. Levy (Cambridge University Press; 332 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Examines the origins and impact of revolts in three cities: Baltimore and Cambridge, Md., and York, Pa.

Greyhound Nation: A Coevolutionary History of England, 1200--1900 by Edmund Russell (Cambridge University Press; 214 pages; $94.99 hardcover, $24.99 paperback). Uses greyhounds in England as a case study of the interplay of history and evolution; documents how both the dogs and people evolved in response to the forces of modernization, such as capitalism, democracy, and industry.

The Indian Caribbean: Migration and Identity in the Diaspora by Lomarsh Roopnarine (University Press of Mississippi; 163 pages; $65). Combines oral history and ethnography, along with archival sources, in a study of East Indian communities across the Caribbean since the 19th century; includes discussion of the French Caribbean and other settings with smaller South Asian populations.

Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder (University of Georgia Press; 256 pages; $86.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Focuses on Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in a study of the growing importance of history to African-Americans in the early-to-mid-20th century.

Meat Makes People Powerful: A Global History of the Modern Era by Wilson J. Warren (University of Iowa Press; 252 pages; $75). Offers a global perspective on meat production and consumption since the 19th century, including the marked expansion of meat-eating in Japan and China.

Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall (University of Pennsylvania Press; 193 pages; $29.95). Uses atlases, art, folklore, oral history, and other sources to contrast European and indigenous American views of nature in the early modern era.

Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans by Julia Guarneri (University of Chicago Press; 368 pages; $45). Focuses on New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago between 1880 and 1930 in a study of the role of daily newspapers in creating distinctive urban cultures.

Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863--1866 edited by Timothy J. Williams and Evan A. Kutzler (University of Georgia Press; 160 pages; $64.95 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Combines an edition of the manuscript memoir of a Confederate soldier captured in New Market, Va., in 1863, with letters he exchanged with his fiancee while confined in six Union prisons in multiple states until his release in 1865.

Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego by Jimmy Patino (University of North Carolina Press; 356 pages; $90 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Focuses on the activist circles of Chicano leader Herman Baca in a study of struggles for immigrant rights and against deportation in San Diego’s border region from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Rebels on the Niagara: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866 by Lawrence E. Cline (State University of New York Press; 225 pages; $75 hardcover, $24.95 paperback). Discusses an invasion of Canada along the Niagara frontier by a force of Irish-Americans, many of them Civil War combat veterans, as part of a plan by the Fenian Brotherhood to seize Canada and make it a “new” Ireland in order to force the British from the “old” Ireland.

The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard University Press; 360 pages; $35). Discusses Christian scholars who produced the first accurate translations of the Qur’an into Western languages and otherwise pioneered the study of Muslim civilization in the West.

Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania by Kealani Cook (Cambridge University Press; 270 pages; $49.99). Focuses on missionaries, diplomats, and travelers in a study of Hawaiians’ relations with other Oceanic peoples between 1850 and 1907.

“A Road to Peace and Freedom": The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 by Robert M. Zecker (Temple University Press; 384 pages; $99.50 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Examines the history, activities, and appeal of the IWO, a consortium of ethnic mutual self-insurance societies that guaranteed the healthcare of its members, offered accident and life insurance, and lobbied for worker rights until its dismantling in 1954, a casualty of red-baiting.

Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century by Walter J. Fraser Jr. (University of South Carolina Press; 432 pages; $44.99). A history of the Georgia port city that documents its shifting economic fortunes and racial politics since war’s end.

The Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 5: 1788-1794 edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and others (University of Virginia Press; 792 pages; $95). Documents, among other things, the American statesman’s activities as the first Chief Justice of the United States, and his return as special envoy to Britain to negotiate what became known as the Jay Treaty.

Selected Works of Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis translated by Richard Cusimano and Eric Whitmore (Catholic University of America Press; 293 pages; $65). Translation of writings that shed light on the 12th-century French abbot’s role as a diplomat and royal advisor as well as his better known architectural work on the Abbey of Saint-Denis.

The Slave-Trader’s Letter-Book: Charles Lamar, the “Wanderer,” and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade by Jim Jordan (University of Georgia Press; 352 pages; $32.95). Offers a biographical account of a Savannah businessman who arranged the shipment and landing of hundreds of Africans on Jekyll Island, Ga., in 1858 in violation of U.S. laws contravening the transatlantic slave trade; also includes 70 long-lost letters by Lamar.

Speaking for the River: Confronting Pollution on the Willamette, 1920s-1970s by James V. Hillegas-Elting (Oregon State University Press; 348 pages; $29.95). Offers a historical perspective on clean-up efforts on the Oregon river, beginning in 1926 with a clash between abatement advocates and the City of Portland and pulp and paper industry.

“This Infernal War": The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard edited by Timothy Mason Roberts (Kent State University Press; 376 pages; $34.95). Edition of letters exchanged between a couple who were anti-war, anti-Lincoln Copperheads in Fulton County, Ill., when William Standard enlisted in the 103rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment in October 1862.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

Science in an Extreme Environment: The 1963 American Mount Everest Expedition by Philip W. Clements (University of Pittsburgh Press; 288 pages; $39.95). Topics include how interwoven ideas of masculinity and nationalism figured in an American expedition to the Himalayas designed to study how severe stress at high altitudes affected human behavior.

INFORMATION STUDIES

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble (New York University Press; 256 pages; $89 hardcover, $28 paperback). Identifies negative biases against girls and women of color in search engines and other mechanisms of online “discoverability.”

LINGUISTICS

The Singlish Controversy: Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World by Lionel Wee (Cambridge University Press; 220 pages; $110). A study of socio-political controversies involving the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore.

The Sociolinguistics of Ethiopian Sign Language: A Study of Language Use and Attitudes by Eyasu Hailu Tamene (Gallaudet University Press; 175 pages; $60). A study of EthSL, a form of signing whose emergence is liked to American missionaries’ establishment of the first school for the deaf in Addis Ababa in 1963.

LITERATURE

Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora by Marian Aguiar (University of Minnesota Press; 280 pages; $108 hardcover, $27 paperback). Draws on fiction, law, Bollywood filmmaking, and other realms in a study of the representation and reinvented meanings of arranged marriage in the South Asian diaspora of Britain, the United States, and Canada.

Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling by Bradley J. Irish (Northwestern University Press; 235 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Combines scientific understandings of affect with literary analysis in a study of how literature both reflected and influenced the emotional world of the English court across the 16th century; focuses on disgust, envy, rejection, and dread through discussions of John Skelton; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey; Sir Philip Sidney; and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.

The Forgiveness to Come: The Holocaust and the Hyper-Ethical by Peter Banki (Fordham University Press; 208 pages; $95 hardcover, $28 paperback). Draws on literary, philosophical, and cinematic texts in a discussion of the Holocaust, inexpiable crimes, and the necessity of rethinking the concept of forgiveness and its relation to justice.

George Eliot’s Religious Imagination: A Theopoetics of Evolution by Marilyn Orr (Northwestern University Press; 175 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Explores ideas of convergence, inwardness, incarnation, and integration in a study of the English writer’s evolving religious imagination.

Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism by G.S. Sahota (Northwestern University Press; 277 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback). Pays particular attention to the Hindi and Urdu “neo-epic” in late colonial India.

The Life of Mark Twain: The Early Years, 1835-1871 by Gary Scharnhorst (University of Missouri Press; 720 pages; $36.95). First book in a three-volume biography of the American writer.

Lincoln’s Lover: Mary Lincoln in Poetry by Jason Emerson (Kent State University Press; 152 pages; $19.95). Edition, with commentary, of poetry written by, for, and about Mary Todd Lincoln from 1839 to 2012.

Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text by Sarah McNamer (University of Notre Dame Press; 444 pages; $65). Scholarly edition, with translation and commentary, of a previously unpublished Italian text here identified as the likely original version of what was the most popular devotional work of the later Middle Ages.

The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia by Alexandar Mihailovic (University of Wisconsin Press; 272 pages; $79.95). Draws on interviews with members in a study of the activities and legacy of the Mitki, a literary and artistic collective that emerged in Leningrad in the late Soviet era and pioneered a form of protest art that set the stage for such post-Soviet activists as Pussy Riot.

Noble Subjects: The Russian Novel and the Gentry, 1762--1861 by Bella Grigoryan (Northern Illinois University Press; 192 pages; $39). Discusses the Russian novel as a vehicle for masculine domestic ideology; topics include depictions of male landowners in works by Novikov, Karamzin, Pushkin, Bulgarin, Gogol, Goncharov, Aksakov, and Tolstoy along with farming treatises and other non-literary sources.

Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (University of Pennsylvania Press; 249 pages; $55). Documents how American novelists in the first 30 years after the ratification of the Constitution developed tropes that countered British writers’ assumptions of self, property, mobility, and respectable society.

Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene by Lynn Keller (University of Virginia Press; 304 pages; $65 hardcover, $29.50 paperback). A study of environmental poetry by Evelyn Reilly, Juliana Spahr, Ed Roberson, Jena Osman, and nine other North American poets, written since 2000.

A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam by Adam Gilbert (University of Massachusetts Press; 304 pages; $90 hardcover, $32.95 paperback). Uses works by soldier-poets to explore the key moral issues of the war.

Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash edited by Randall Wilhelm and Zackary Vernon (University of South Carolina Press; 240 pages; $49.99). Essays on the American poet and fiction writer (b. 1953) by scholars in both Southern and Appalachian studies; topics include Rash’s environmental vision, and depictions of Southern honor culture in his novels.

Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites (University Press of Mississippi; 246 pages; $65). Documents how ecofeminism and other “material feminisms” have influenced literature for younger children and adolescents in the past two decades; works discussed include Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park.

MUSIC

Everybody Sing! Community Singing in the American Picture Palace by Esther M. Morgan-Ellis (University of Georgia Press; 312 pages; $49.95). A study of organ-accompanied sing-alongs in American motion-picture palaces, a practice that flourished in the 1920s before sound technology drove musicians from theaters.

PHILOSOPHY

Husserl’s Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi (Oxford University Press; 224 pages; $40). Pays particular attention to the German thinker’s transcendental idealism.

Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force: From the Early Modern Tradition to the Critical Philosophy by Tal Glezer (Cambridge University Press; 236 pages; $99.99). Discusses the German philosopher’s category of reality as key to his mature philosophy; topics include the influences of early modern debates from Francisco Suarez through Descartes and Leibniz.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by Michael Albertus and Victor Menaldo (Cambridge University Press; 322 pages; $99.99 hardcover, $29.99 paperback). Uses worldwide data since 1800 to describe how outgoing authoritarian regimes shape electoral, legal, and other institutions to shield incumbent elites in the process of democratization; includes detailed case studies of Sweden and Chile.

Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy by Mark Harvey (University Press of Kansas; 254 pages; $34.95). Discusses Bono, Angelina Jolie, and other figures in a study of the source, nature, and scope of celebrity influence on public opinion and policy.

Democracy and Goodness: A Historicist Political Theory by John R. Wallach (Cambridge University Press; 320 pages; $89.99 hardcover, $32.99 paperback). Examines the relationship between democracy as a form of political power and goodness as a political ethic.

Realist Ethics: Just War Traditions as Power Politics by Valerie Morkevicius (Cambridge University Press; 268 pages; $94.99 hardcover, $34.99 paperback). Examines just-war thought in Christian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions and its relationship to pragmatist politics.

Representation in Action: Canadian MPs in the Constituencies by Royce Koop, Heather Bastedo, and Kelly Blidook (University of British Columbia Press; 248 pages; US$75). Uses participant-observer study of 11 MPs to examine what accounts for differences in style and agency as members of Parliament engage their constituencies as well as Ottawa.

The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics: China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism by Øystein Tunsjø (Columbia University Press; 271 pages; $65). Argues that the world system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff.

PSYCHOLOGY

Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition by Kelly Bulkeley (Stanford University Press; 237 pages; $70 hardcover, $22.95 paperback). Uses methods from the cognitive science of religion to examine the recorded dreams of Lucrecia de Leon, a young woman arrested by the Inquisition after one of her dreamed prophecies correctly predicted the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

RELIGION

Liturgical Theology after Schmemann: An Orthodox Reading of Paul Ricoeur by Brian A. Butcher (Fordham University Press; 360 pages; $110 hardcover, $45 paperback). Uses the legacy of the Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann (1921-83) as a starting point to explore the implications of the philosophy of the French thinker Ricoeur (1913-2005) for liturgical theology.

Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa edited by Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, and Marie Rodet (Ohio University Press; 330 pages; $69.95). Compares Christianity and Islam in writings on religion and mass media on the continent, from print culture to the digital era.

Walter Rauschenbusch: Published Works and Selected Writings: Volume I: Christianity and the Social Crisis and Other Writings edited by William H. Brackney (Mercer University Press; 488 pages; $45). First book in a three-volume edition of writings by the American theologian and Baptist preacher (1861-1918).

RHETORIC

Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument by Mary E. Stuckey (Michigan State University Press; 270 pages; $44.95). Uses a set of letters sent by clergy to the president in 1935 as a case study of the rhetorical processes of American politics.

SOCIOLOGY

Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese by Helene K. Lee (Rutgers University Press; 174 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $26.95 paperback). Examines and contrasts the experiences of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul.

Toward a Pragmatist Sociology: John Dewey and the Legacy of C. Wright Mills by Robert G. Dunn (Temple University Press; 190 pages; $45). Explores affinities in the intellectual and moral visions of the two thinkers and applies those links to the development of a critical sociology.

THEATER

Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas edited by Jimmy A. Noriega and Analola Santana (Southern Illinois University Press; 302 pages; $60). Writings by theater scholars and artists on such topics as black theater and activism in Brazil, and Latina performance and action against “feminicide” in the Americas.

URBAN STUDIES

Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City edited by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, and E. Fuat Keyman (Rutgers University Press; 212 pages; $99.95 hardcover, $29.95 paperback). Writings by scholars in history, religious studies, anthropology, and other fields on the Turkish city’s experience of migration and globalization over the past two centuries.

Latino Placemaking and Planning: Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization by Jesus J. Lara (University of Arizona Press; 184 pages; $19.95). Uses case studies from cities throughout the United States to explore such topics as Latinos’ revitalization of older commercial corridors.

Liquid Capital: Making the Chicago Waterfront by Joshua A.T. Salzmann (University of Pennsylvania Press; 240 pages; $49.95). Discusses actions by 19th-century Chicago politicians and boosters to transform what had been a disease-infested bog on the shore of Lake Michigan to an economic and cultural hub.