Books, Etc.
Online Links to Faculty Publications

The Electric City : Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 - Amazon

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 - Print.Google

Shock Cities : The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago - Amazon

City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 - Amazon

Cities and Catastrophes/Villes Et Catastrophes: Coping With Emergency in European History - Amazon

Harold L. Platt

Ph.D. Rice Specialization: American History

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Research Interests:

• Urban History
• Environmental History
• History of Technology
• Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Research Projects:

My research focuses on the city, technology, and the environment. I have recently finished a book-length study, Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). I am now working on a new book on urban and regional planning in the twentieth century from an environmental perspective.

Selected Publications:

Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2005).

Cities and Catastrophes: Coping with Emergency in European History, eds. G. Massard-Guilbuad, H. Platt, and D. Schott (Germany: Peter Lang Verlag, 2002.

The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)

City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1920 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983)

Course for Spring 2007:

History 112: U.S. History Survey Since 1865
History 363: Civil War and Reconstruction

Office Phone:

(773) 508-2237

Office Fax:

(773) 508-2153

E-mail address:

hplatt@luc.edu

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