A Social History of the Fool. By Sandra Billington. Brighton and New York: Harvester Press and St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. x + 150. £18.95.

Adler and Sullivan's Auditorium Building in Chicago (1886-1890) is here analyzed in the context of Chicago's social history of the 1880s. Specifically, the building is seen as a capitalistic response to socialist and anarchist movements of the period. The Auditorium's principal patron, Ferdinand W. Peck, created a theater that was to give access to cultural and civic events for the city's workers, to draw them away from both politicized and nonpoliticized "low" urban entertainments. Adler and Sullivan's theater was to serve a mass audience, unlike opera houses of the period, which held multiple tiers of boxes for privileged patrons. This tradition was represented by the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City (1881-1883). Turning away from works like the Paris Opéra, Peck and his architects perhaps sought to emulate ideas of other European theaters of the period, such as Bayreuth's Festspielhaus (1872-1876). Sullivan's interior had an ornamental and iconographic program that was innovative relative to traditional opera houses. His design of the building's exterior was in a Romanesque style that recalled ancient Roman monuments. It is here compared with other Chicago buildings of its era that represented high capital's reaction to workers' culture, such as Burnham and Root's First Regiment Armory (1889-1891), Peck's own house (1887), and the Chicago Athenaeum (1890-1891). The Auditorium's story invites a view of the Chicago School that emphasizes the role of patrons' ideological agenda rather than modern structural expression.

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Lochner v. The Journeymen Bakers of New York: The Journeymen Bakers, Their Hours of Labor, and The Constitution: A Case Study in the Social History of Legal Thought

American Journal of Legal History ◽

10.2307/845444 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 38 (4) ◽

pp. 413 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Matthew S. Bewig

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social History ◽

Legal Thought ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

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E.J. Evans and J. Richards, A Social History of Britain in Postcards 1870-1930. London & New York, Longman, 1980, $23,-.

Clio Medica. Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae, Vol. 17 ◽

10.1163/9789004418677_010 ◽

1982 ◽

pp. 51-51

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social History ◽

History Of

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Everyday Communism: New Social History of the German Democratic Republic

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777304001699 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 233-247 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

SANDRINE KOTT

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

North Carolina ◽

Cultural History ◽

Social History ◽

German Democratic Republic ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Daily Life ◽

Chapel Hill ◽

History Of ◽

East German

Konrad Jarausch, ed., Dictatorship as Experience. Toward a Socio-Cultural History of the GDR (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999), 388 pp., £14.00 (pb), ISBN 1-57181-182-6.Thomas Lindenberger, ed., Herrschaft und Eigensinn in der Diktatur (Cologne, Weimar and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999) 367 pp., €39.90 (hb), ISBN 3-412-13598-4.Annegret Schüle, ‘Die Spinne’. Die Erfahrungsgeschichte weiblicher Industriearbeit im VEB Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2001), 398 pp., €18.00 (pb), ISBN 3-934565-87-5.Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers' and Peasants' State. Communism and Society in East Germany under Ulbricht 1945–71 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 272 pp., £15.99 (pb), ISBN 0-7190-6289-6.Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary. Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema 1949–1989 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002), 331 pp., £19.50 (pb), ISBN 0-8078-5385-2.

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