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

Title: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Revised)
Author: William Cronon
ISBN: 9780393308730
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Good


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Publisher Description:

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