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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book
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Nature's Metropolis : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393308730 : 0393308731 : 12 Aug 1992 : A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city...Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel."" -Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe"
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Amazon Review
Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation.
- 0393308731
- 9780393308730
- William Cronon
- 12 August 1992
- W. W. Norton & Co.
- Paperback (Book)
- 592
- New edition
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