Making of Milwaukee (4th Edition)

Gurda, John

ISBN 10: 0692138374 / ISBN 13: 9780692138373

Published by Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI, 2018

About this Item

498 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. NOTE: SIGNED BY AUTHOR on book plate on front end paper. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making of Milwaukee (4th Edition)
• Publisher: Milwaukee County Historical Society, Milwaukee, WI
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692138374
• ISBN 13: 9780692138373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

The Making of Milwaukee is generally acknowledged as the standard history of Wisconsin’s largest city. Well-written, superbly organized, and lavishly illustrated, it tells the story of a Midwest metropolis that has been, at various times, the largest shipper of wheat on earth, America’s most “foreign” city, the nation’s beer capital, “The Machine Shop of the World,” and the epicenter of municipal Socialism. Renowned historian John Gurda chronicles the development of a human-scale metropolis, a community whose past has produced one of the most livable big cities in America and, at the same time, created some daunting social and economic problems. This fourth edition of the book features a thoroughly updated text and an all-new chapter that brings Milwaukee’s story up to the present day.

About the Author

John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-one books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, churches, and industries. He is also a photographer, lecturer, and local history columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Gurda is an eight-time winner of the Wisconsin Historical Society s Award of Merit. The common thread in all his work is an understanding of history as why things are the way they are.