This volume is the winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History given by the Council of the American Philosophical Society. Extravagantly illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings, and contemporary cartoons, "An Early Encounter with Tomorrow" documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume also contains an extensive bibliography, arranged by country, and profiles of the foreign observers, who sought the implications for European culture in what Asa Briggs called the "shock city" of the western world.
- ISBN10 0252023056
- ISBN13 9780252023057
- Publish Date 1 April 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Illinois Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English