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ISBN-10: 0393308731
ISBN-13: 9780393308730
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 05/17/1992
Dimensions: 9.36" L, 6.08" W, 1.56" H

Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Revised)

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Overview

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America’s most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that emerged is our own.

Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

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No one has ever written a better book about a city...No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon.–Kenneth T. Jackson "Boston Globe"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393308731
ISBN-13: 9780393308730
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 05/17/1992
Dimensions: 9.36" L, 6.08" W, 1.56" H
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