[PDF.48wg] Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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 | #24381 in Books |  W W Norton Company |  1992-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.20 x1.60 x6.20l,1.82 | File type: PDF | 592 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| My Favorite Work of History|By Jake H. -- Chicago|The genius of this book is that it explains how the world works. It takes on the big picture, with uncommon elegance and assurance. This is how history should be done, or, at least, how more history should be done. Yes, it's about a particular time and place. I first encountered it in a college course about Chicago history|.com |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 sweep

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

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West   |  William Cronon. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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