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- catalog abstract "Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was a city favored by geography and climate. It was founded in the early 1800s on great expectations. Its location at the head of major rivers navigable both summer and winter and its proximity to coal fields generated predictions that Cairo would soon surpass Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and even Chicago. Yet it failed to realize the success its promoters believed inevitable. Using mainly primary sources such as newspapers, city council records, and census data, Herman R. Lantz has traced the history of the city and has pinpointed the economic, social, and psychological factors that helped to retard Cairo's progress while other cities with the same, or even fewer, advantages flourished. The result is an important socio-historical contribution that attempts to explore the process of community failure in the perspective of national success.".
- catalog contributor b656208.
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Ill.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Ill.) Politics and government.".
- catalog coverage "Cairo (Ill.) Social conditions.".
- catalog created "[1972]".
- catalog date "1972".
- catalog date "[1972]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1972]".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [220]-[230]".
- catalog description "Cairo, Illinois, at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was a city favored by geography and climate. It was founded in the early 1800s on great expectations. Its location at the head of major rivers navigable both summer and winter and its proximity to coal fields generated predictions that Cairo would soon surpass Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and even Chicago. Yet it failed to realize the success its promoters believed inevitable. Using mainly primary sources such as newspapers, city council records, and census data, Herman R. Lantz has traced the history of the city and has pinpointed the economic, social, and psychological factors that helped to retard Cairo's progress while other cities with the same, or even fewer, advantages flourished. The result is an important socio-historical contribution that attempts to explore the process of community failure in the perspective of national success.".
- catalog description "Purpose and overview -- The early years -- River transshipments and railroads -- Efforts to revive the economy -- The economy of liquor and vice -- Political development -- Failure in process -- Flooding and seep water -- Power, dependency, alientation and resignation -- The present and the future.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 235 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Community in search of itself.".
- catalog identifier "080930516X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Community in search of itself.".
- catalog issued "1972".
- catalog issued "[1972]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press".
- catalog relation "Community in search of itself.".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Ill.) Economic conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Ill.) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Cairo (Ill.) Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "301.36/3/09773999".
- catalog subject "HC108.C15 L33".
- catalog tableOfContents "Purpose and overview -- The early years -- River transshipments and railroads -- Efforts to revive the economy -- The economy of liquor and vice -- Political development -- Failure in process -- Flooding and seep water -- Power, dependency, alientation and resignation -- The present and the future.".
- catalog title "A community in search of itself; a case history of Cairo, Illinois [by] Herman R. Lantz. Foreword by Oscar Handlin.".
- catalog type "text".