An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition

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.Arnold Lewis is the author of 'An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition', published 2001 under ISBN 9780252069659 and ISBN 025206965X.