The Making of Milwaukee

by John Gurda

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692138373
Publisher:	Milwaukee County Historical Society
Publication date:	12/21/2018
Edition description:	4th Edition
Pages:	458
Sales rank:	440,104
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.60(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Native Milwaukee	1
Chapter 2	City on the Swamp, 1835-1846	23
Chapter 3	Here Come the Germans, 1846-1865	59
Chapter 4	Wheat, Iron, Beer, and Bloodshed, 1865-1886	105
Chapter 5	Triumph of the Workingman, 1886-1910	157
Chapter 6	A Bigger, Brighter, and Blander Milwaukee, 1910-1930	213
Chapter 7	Hard Times and Wartime, 1930-1945	275
Chapter 8	The Exploding Metropolis, 1945-1967	319
Chapter 9	Shifting Currents, 1967-	377
	Bibliography	439
	Index	447