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As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

The most comprehensive, updated history of St. Bartholomew the Great, the oldest parish church in London, as it celebrates its nine-hundred-year anniversary. At the heart of the Smithfield area, with its pubs, restaurants, and market, is a church built when Henry I was King of England. Overlooking the fields where kings confronted rebellions, knights jousted, and heretics were burnt, St. Bartholomew’s Priory and Hospital played a central role in the history of medieval London. The tale of St. Bartholomew’s is one of survival and renewal. Not only has the priory hosted many of London’s most famous (such as a young Benjamin Franklin), but it has also miraculously survived the tumults of the Reformation, the Civil War, the Great Fire of 1666, and the bomb raids of World Wars I and II. Richly illustrated, 900 Years of St Bartholomew’s surveys the art, architecture, and deep historical significance of this enduring landmark.

• Introduction
• How Indian abortion pills travel the globe
• Abortion pills in American clinics and laws
• How to self-manage abortion in America
• The geography of clandestine abortion in Poland
• Abortion pills in the Polish abortion underground
• Irish abortions by plane or pill
• Abortion pills and Ireland's 8th amendment referendum
• From criminalization to decriminalization in Northern Ireland
• Looking forward.

"Abortion access has been transformed by medication abortion pills. These pills have made safe abortion possible around the world, even in the most restrictive legal contexts. Abortion Beyond Borders follows these pills as they are moved by feminist activists from India into Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland and the USA. It explores how medication abortion pills and the activists who supply them have changed abortion access, impacted politics, and catalyzed progressive reforms. Abortion Beyond Borders offers an unprecedented, up-close look into the global self-managed abortion movement"-- Provided by publisher.

• I. Nameing the Natural World ; How It Might Have Been ; Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1475 The Postman ; Your Garden in Winter ; The Portrait You Commissioned ; The Artist Paints His Wife ; Myrtle Beach, 1959 ; Margaret Sandburg Tends Her Garden ; One Morning ; Near the Grave of EffieGray ; At the End of His Life, William Bradford Studied Poetry ; For the Women Who Claimed It: Angastaco, Argentina ; Giotto's Angels ; Sunday Market, Tlacolula ; Afternoon in Cartago
• II. Looking for Virginia Dare ; A House Called Birdland ; Drift ; Flight ; Annunciation: Triptych, ca. 1425 ; Where the Very Stones Were Green ; Other Lives in St. Augustine ; Hummingbird ; Emerson Mourns the Death of His Son ; After World War I, the Scottish Painter F. C. B. Cadell Returns to Iona ; The Raising of Jairus's Daughter ; Henry James in Venice ; Correspondence: Trenzas ; Lee's Angels: History ; Anne Spencer's Letter/Family Portrait ; The Steadfast Tin Soldier ; John Baptizes Jesus at Odney Pool ; At the Circus, 1925
• Notes on the Poems.

"Whether contemplating the death of a parent, imagining events from the life of someone as obscure as Juana Pereira to one as celebrated as Bonnie Prince Charlie, or turning her keen lyric sense to the beauty of the natural world, Margaret Mackinnon transforms both the remarkable and the quotidian into art" --Frank Paino, author of Obscura, Out of Eden, and The Rapture of Matter.

• Prólogo / Gracia Angulo
• Amapolas en el jardín
• A ti te gustan los lirios
• Departmento 201
• Todo será como antes
• Un presagio del fin del mundo
• Corre, Luciano, corre
• Esa voz en mi garganta
• El saco
• Extinción
• Huida al paraíso

• Introduction: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Anime?
• 1. Kid Deko's New Picture Book: Early Cartoons in Japan 1912-21
• 2. The Film Factories: Animation Technique and Technology 1921-37
• 3. The Shadow Staff: Japanese Animation at War 1931-48
• 4. The Seeds of Anime: Japanese Animation Industries 1946-62
• 5. Dreams of Export: Tōei Dōga and MOM Production 1953-67
• 6. Warrior Business: Tezuka's Anime Revolution in Context 1961-72
• 7. The Braun Tube: Trended Change in Japanese Animation 1966-83
• 8. The Third Medium: The Transformation of Ownership and Access 1977-96
• 9. The 'Pokémon Shock': Anime Goes Global 1984-97, 1997-2006
• 10. The Digital Engine: New Technologies and Animation 1983-2012
• 11. The Great Firewall: Anime and China, 1979-2021
• 12. Holy Lands: Otaku economics, 2005-22
• 13. Everything Now: The transformation of distribution and exhibition, 2015-23
• Epilogue: The new normal?

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $6.5 billion a year, linked to everything from manga to computer games, Pokemon and plushies. In this comprehensive, critically-acclaimed history, Jonathan Clements traces the production and reception history of anime, from a handful of hobbyists in the early 20th century to the Oscar-winning Spirited Away and up to the present day, with anime established as a global medium.Exploring the cultural and technological developments of the past century, Clements addresses topics such as wartime instructional animation and work-for-hire for American clients. Drawing on the testimonies of industry professionals, a myriad of Japanese-language documents, memoirs and books, Anime: A History illuminates the anime business from the inside, investigating its innovators, its unsung heroes and its controversies.This new edition has been revised and updated throughout, with full colour illustrations and new chapters addressing the rising economic power of otaku subcultures, the development of anime in China, and the transformation of distribution and exhibition accompanying the dominance of Netflix and other globalised streaming platforms.--Publisher's description

• Introduction. Haptic interfaces and the quest to reinscribe tactility
• Interface 1. The electrotactile machine
• Interface 2. The haptic 99
• Interface 3. The tongue of the skin
• Interface 4. Human-machine tactile communication
• Interface 5. The cultural construction of technologized touch
• Coda. Haptics and the reordering of the mediated sensorium.

• Introduction: Uniquely Nasty?
• Big D and Me
• TVTV to USC
• Chase Manhattan Rockefeller
• Kings Can Never Be Wrong
• Teach It Flat or Teach It Round
• The Governor Meets with the Gays
• Kameny's Attic
• Archive Activism: Recovering LGBTQ History
• Lilli Vincenz, Leibenkuntzler
• "Negroes," "Agitators," and "Racial Perverts"
• Counsel for the "Preverts" vs. Waco's John Dowdy
• Presidential Libraries: Theirs or Ours?
• Ex-Ex in Paris
• Asylum Seekers
• A Queer American Spy Story
• International Inspirations
• Remember
• In Buffalo Bill's Cody: Traveling While Gay
• At Hoover's Grave
• "What Day's Today?"
• The Unclassified Principles of Archive Activism.

"Archive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, "gone missing," or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change. Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis's personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis's first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library in the papers of President Johnson's personal secretary, sealed until her death at age 105. Mattachine's signature discovery is a federal attorney's classified assault blandly filed under "Suitability" at the National Archives: "What it boils down to is that most men look upon homosexuality as something uniquely nasty." Archive Activism is not only a memoir but also an essential roadmap for activists from any group armed only with their library cards"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : An exploration of the shadowland of armed groups and international law / Katharine Fortin and Ezequiel Heffes
• Violence as redress : armed groups, the right to rebellion and the resort to force for gross violations of human rights / Luke Moffett
• The politics of armed non-state groups and the codification of international humanitarian law / Giovanni Mantilla
• ‘The right to participate in hostilities’: combatant privilege vs criminal responsibility for members of organised armed groups during international and domestic criminal trials / Rogier Bartels
• Proscription and group membership in counter-terrorism and armed conflict: Areas of tensions between criminal law and international humanitarian law / Ilya Sobol and Gloria Gaggioli
• Shadowland strategy: How non-state armed actors navigate between national laws and international law / Hyeran Jo and Niels H. Appeldorn
• Exploring the civilian and political institutions of armed non-state actors under IHL in an age of rebel governance / Katharine Fortin
• Rebel rulers and rules for rebels: Rebel governance and international law / Alessandra Spadaro
• From law-taking to law-making and law-adapting: exploring non-state armed groups’ normative efforts / Ezequiel Heffes
• The provision of healthcare by Islamist armed groups : between sharia and international law / Marta Furlan
• De facto justice: Prosecution by non-state actors in armed conflict / Helen Duffy
• ‘Equals, but not Equals’: The paradox of amnesties and armed groups in non-international armed conflict / Annyssa Bellal
• A matter of life and death: The impact of power-sharing on the legal position of armed groups / Daniëlla Dam-de Jong.

"Through its careful consideration of the status of armed groups within a complex legal landscape, this insightful book identifies and examines the tensions that arise due to their actions existing across a spectrum of legality and illegality. Considering the number of armed groups currently exercising governance functions and controlling territory and population in the world, its analysis is especially topical. Armed Groups and International Law provides essential peer-reviewed analyses of the place of armed groups in the legal framework. A collaborative effort between eminent scholars from different disciplines, it summarizes various points of contention within the study of these armed actors, detailing examples that are highly relevant to the contemporary world, such as Afghanistan and Syria. Addressing law-making, rebel governance and accountability, this illuminating book will be of great benefit to students of international humanitarian law, human rights law, international criminal law, and public international law seeking to expand their understanding of the treatment of armed groups within the international legal system. It will also serve as a useful resource for practitioners working in the area of civilian protection and academics conducting research on armed conflict from a variety of disciplines"-- Provided by publisher.

• The structure of Roman society
• Families
• Marriage
• Housing and city life
• Domestic and personal concerns
• Education
• Occupations
• Enslaved persons
• Freedmen and freedwomen
• Government and politics
• The Roman army
• Provincial administration
• Women in Roman society
• Leisure and entertainment
• Religion and philosophy.

"As the Romans Did offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, cross-references to related topics, and a newly-updated bibliography provide readers with the historical and cultural background material necessary to appreciate the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well. They tell of the success and failure of Rome's grandiose imperialist policies and also of the pleasures and hardships of everyday life. Wide-ranging and lively, the second edition of As the Romans Did offers the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Part I: Rise. New York, 1784
• Astoria, 1810
• Massacre Opera House, 1849
• 840 Fifth Avenue, 1908
• Waldorf-Astoria, 1928
• Hever Castle, 1916
• Part II: Fall. Rokeby, 1875
• Halifax, April 15, 1912
• Blackwell's Island, 1910
• Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966
• Ferncliff, 1952
• The last Astor, 2013
• Epilogue.

"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention--and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society--Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it--and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother--who had herself married into the family for money--the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself"--Dust jacket flap.

• A history of cocktail napkins
• Cocktails & bartenders
• Hollywood, Los Angeles
• California hotels
• Wining & dining, music & dancing
• Good times
• Mermaids
• San Francisco
• Architecture
• Cute critters, pink elephants
• Oakland
• Steak & B.B.Q.
• Rooftop bars
• San Jose
• V is for victory
• Va-va voom!
• Bakersfield
• Looking back
• Aloha!-tiki bar culture
• Last call.

"Bar Keeps: A Collection of California's Best Cocktail Napkins is a fun and fabulous tour through the cocktail napkins of the golden state. Hundreds of images of vintage cocktail napkins will surprise and delight anyone who is a fan of cocktail culture, roadside diners, hidden dives, tiki bars, and more. Collector Patrick Quinn highlights some of the most unique and interesting napkins he's brought together over years of enthusiastic searching. Bar Keeps: A Collection of California's Best Cocktail Napkins is the perfect book for any coffee table or bar top in town!"--Publisher's description.

"These poems speak with a fierce tenderness of many aspects of the poet's life: a childhood spent on the banks of the Churchill River, the death of a beloved one, the struggle to try to find forgiveness for wrongs done to her people and the weariness of trying to redress those wrongs. "a beautiful rebellion" reaches one hand back to Louis Riel and one hand ahead to future Métis generations." -- Provided by publisher.

• Imagine: a proem / Frederic Brown
• You're another / Damon Knight
• This earth of majesty / Arthur C. Clarke
• Birds can't count / Mildred Clingerman
• The golem / Avram Davidson
• Pottage / Zenna Henderson
• The vanishing American / Charles Beaumont
• Created he them / Alice Eleanor Jones. Four vignettes: Too far / Frederic Brown
• A matter of energy / James Blish
• Nellthu / Anthony Boucher
• Dreamworld / Isaac Asimov
• One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson
• The short ones / Raymond E. Banks
• The last prophet / Mildred Clingerman
• Botany Bay / P.M. Hubbard
• A canticle for Leibowitz
• Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Lament by a maker / L. Spargue de Camp
• Pattern for survival / Richard Matheson
• The singing bell / Isaac Asimov
• The last word / Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont.

• Imagine: a proem / Frederic Brown
• You're another / Damon Knight
• This earth of majesty / Arthur C. Clarke
• Birds can't count / Mildred Clingerman
• The golem / Avram Davidson
• Pottage / Zenna Henderson
• The vanishing American / Charles Beaumont
• Created he them / Alice Eleanor Jones. Four vignettes: Too far / Frederic Brown
• A matter of energy / James Blish
• Nellthu / Anthony Boucher
• Dreamworld / Isaac Asimov
• One ordinary day, with peanuts / Shirley Jackson
• The short ones / Raymond E. Banks
• The last prophet / Mildred Clingerman
• Botany Bay / P.M. Hubbard
• A canticle for Leibowitz
• Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Lament by a maker / L. Spargue de Camp
• Pattern for survival / Richard Matheson
• The singing bell / Isaac Asimov
• The last word / Chad Oliver and Charles Beaumont.

How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? The streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime attracted audiences₂ attention with nuanced and intersectional queer and trans narratives when they debuted the original series Orange Is The New Black and Transparent. Legacy channels had to develop more complex and sustained LGBTQ storylines to compete. Queer and ally showrunners use their growing influence to create well-written, diverse roles, and audiences hold producers accountable through social media.

• Biblical studies/cultural studies / J. Cheryl Exum and Stephen D. Moore
• What is cultural studies anyway? / Richard Johnson
• Cultural studies : an introduction / John Storey
• Introduction: in debt to the censor / Roland Boer
• Graves of craving: fast food, or, Manna and McDonald's / Roland Boer
• Jezebel revamped / Tina Pippin
• Bathsheba plotted, shot, and painted / J. Cheryl Exum
• How the West was not one: Delilah deconstructs the Western / Jennifer L. Koosed and Tod Linafelt
• Dracula: 'The blood is the life!" / Larry J. Kreitzer
• House readings and field readings: the discourse of slavery and biblical/ cultural studies / Jennifer A. Glancy
• The bible John murders and media discourse, 1969-1996 / William T. Scott
• The world's largest Ten Commandments / Timothy K. Beal
• Almost cultural studies? Reflections on the "New Perspective" on Paul / R. Barry Matlock
• The selfish text: the Bible and memetics / Hugh S. Pyper
• Sitcom mythology / George Aichele
• Gospels of death / Richard Walsh
• Why girls cry: gender melancholia and sexual violence in Ezekiel 16 and Boys don't cry / Erin Runions
• Reading "This woman" back into John 7:1-8:59: Liar Liar and the "Pericope adulterae" in intertextual tango / Jeffrey L. Staley
• The question of the animal / Hannah M. Strommen
• From affect to exegesis / Jennifer L. Koosed and Stephen D. Moore
• Citizens of fallen cities: ruins, diaspora, and the materieal unconscous / Maia Kotrovis --Seven stations of affect: religion, affect, and Mel Gibson's the Passion of the Christ / Robert Paul Seesengood
• Introduction to Critical Race Theory / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
• Freedom is no fear: the New Testament and a theology of Policing / Esau McCaulley
• What we talk about when we talk about Samson / Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper.

"Presents key critical readings in the Bible and cultural studies with a focus on the seminal works at the intersection of these fields"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Ferdinand Okorie, CMF
• Part I: Exploring the Prospect of Biblical Hermeneutics
• Catholic Interpretation of Scripture: An Accumulated Wisdom / Donald Senior, CP
• Where Shall Wisdom be Found? (Job 28:12) / Dianne Bergant, CSA
• Paul and Early Christianity in Teaching and Ministry / Carolyn Osiek, RSCJ
• Part II: Context and Biblical Hermeneutics
• African Feminist Approaches to the Bible: A New Oil with Which to Eat Words / Barbara E. Reid, OP
• God, Women, and Point of View in the Abraham and Jacob Narratives / MarySylvia Nwachukwu, DDL
• Reading Pentateuchal Ancestral Narratives in the Context of Community Identity in Africa / Luke Emehiele Ijezie
• Hearing and Reading the "Rebuilding" Voice of the Prophet Haggai 1:1-11 in the Context of African Christianity / Michael Ufok Udoekpo.
• Tobit's Almsgiving as a Model of Missionary Availability / Mark Enemali, CSSp
• Earth, Cosmology, and Context in the Book of Revelation / Ferdinand Okorie, CMF
• Conclusion: Finding Meaning Within a Context: Scripture and Faith / Ferdinand Okorie, CMF
• James Chukwuma Okoye, CSSp: A Selected Bibliography of his Publications.

"This book is an interpretation of biblical narratives from an African context and insists that meaning is found in the context of the African reader"-- Provided by publisher.

• "Disgraceful baseball"
• What constitutes a Major League?
• The dam trickles open
• Statistical variance across leagues and eras
• Mr. James's 23 tests
• Arguments against statistical integration
• Re-writing the record books
• Josh Gibson vs. Ruthsrecord
• Monte Irvin : half in one world, half in another
• Willard Brown : the chance that wasn't a chance
• Roy Campanella : the fallacy of equivalency
• Luke Easter : the toughest case to prove
• Larry Doby : five-tool superstar
• The greatest
• My inner circle : the top 73 players in American baseball history
• Two down, one to go
• Wrapup : what's fair is fair
• A personal postscript
• Negro Leaguers in the hall of fame
• NgL all-time teams
• The Negro Leagues all-star register
• A proposed Major Leagues organizational chart
• A proposed NgL team roster
• NgL and early MLB team failures
• Negro Leaguers who played in the Majors
• Short notes on diverse subjects
• A long note : Major League Baseball vs. the truth.

"For more than half a century, Black baseball players, barred from the Major Leagues by systemic racism, competed in leagues of their own. This book re-interprets the history of race in baseball from the ground up, telling the story of how the Major Leagues became the 'Caucasian Leagues,' and naming the person most responsible for their segregation; showing how Major League owners and executives tried to delay and even prevent integration; and proving, using a broad range of methods, that Negro League players were every inch the equals of their Major League counterparts. Cherished records held by white players since the days of segregation are shown to belong rightfully to Negro League superstars. This book takes a fresh look at a subject that's both straight from today's headlines and as old as baseball itself"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Power looms
• The great coment
• Metropolis of discontent
• Breaking frames, breaking bones
• More value than work or gold
• The modern Prometheus
• The owners of the new machine age.

"The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines--on punishment of death--and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees. Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world--and is shaping our future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Michael Charlesworth
• 'Blue': Text of the film by Derek Jarman.

Australia's involvement in East Timor from 1999-2000 was this nation's largest mission conducted under United Nations auspices, the single largest deployment of ADF personnel since the Second World War and an instrumental part of Timor-Leste gaining its independence. Critically, it was also one not nestled within a larger or lead nation's logistics and administrative support, and also the first time Australia had led such a large multi-national force. In short, International Force East Timor was the most complex politico-strategic challenge Australia had faced, at least since the 1940s. Written from classified government sources and buttressed by hundreds of interviews with veterans and stakeholders, this first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor - Born of Fire and Ash - is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999-2000 East Timor crisis and Australia's response to it. It tackles the good alongside the bad, successes and failures, to chart a complex 'truth' unknown to most Australians, then and now.

• Prologue
• Fire
• Flight
• Aftermath
• Election
• Inquest
• Soup
• Beer
• Fire.

"In the fall of 1871, Chicagoans knew they were due for the "big one" -- a massive, uncontrollable fire that would decimate the city. It had been bone-dry for months, and a recent string of blazes had nearly outstripped the fire department's already scant resources. Then, on October 8, a minor fire broke out in the barn of Irishwoman Kate Leary. A series of unfortunate mishaps and misunderstandings along with insufficient preparation and a high southwesterly wind combined to set the stage for an unmitigated catastrophe. The conflagration that spread from the Learys' property quickly overtook the neighborhood, and before long floating embers had been cast to the far reaches of the city. Nothing to the northeast was safe. Families took to the streets with every possession they could carry. Powerful gusts whipped the flames into a terrifying firestorm. The Chicago River boiled. Over the next forty-eight hours, Chicago fell victim to the largest and most destructive natural disaster the United States had yet endured. The effects of the Great Fire were devastating. But they were also transforming. Out of the ashes, faster than seemed possible, rose new homes, tenements, hotels, and civic buildings, as well as a new political order. The elite seized the reconstruction to crack down on vice, control the disbursement of vast charitable funds, and rebuild the city in their image. But the city's working class recognized only a naked power grab that would challenge their hard-earned property, and move power out of the hands of elected officials and into those of private interests. As soon as the battle against the fire ended, another battle for the future of the city erupted between its entrenched business establishment and its poor and immigrant laborers and shopkeepers. An enrapturing account of the fire's inexorable march and an eye-opening look at its aftermath, The Burning of the World tells the story of one of the most infamous calamities in history and the new Chicago it precipitated -- a disaster that still shapes American cities to this day."--Jacket flap.