Landscapes of Hope

Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

Brian McCammack

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674260375

Publication Date: 08/03/2021

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376 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

24 halftones, 7 maps

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Introduction: Kinship with the Soil
I. The Migration Years, 1915–1929
- 1. “Booker T.” Washington Park and Chicago’s Racial Landscapes
- 2. Black Chicagoans in Unexpected Places
II. The Depression Years, 1930–1940
- 3. Playgrounds and Protest Grounds
- 4. Back to Nature in Hard Times
- 5. Building Men and Building Trees
Epilogue: A Century of Migration to That Great Iron City
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

2018 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History

2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians

Co-Winner, 2018 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies

Longlist, 2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket

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