Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.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 ...
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Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393308730 (0393308731)
ASIN: 393308731
Publish date: May 17th 1992
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Non Fiction,
History,
Urban Fantasy,
Literature,
Environment,
Nature,
Geography,
Economics,
American History,
19th Century,
Cities,
Urbanism
Chicago, says Cronon, cannot attribute its rapid growth in the last third of the nineteenth century simply to being a central place. Chicago stood at the boundaries of ecosystems, continental watersheds, glacial termini, rural and urban society, railroad “trunk and fan,” and “natural and cultural l...
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