First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago 1875-1920

by JeffreySAdler (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $52.53

  Examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. This book offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.