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Title: NATURE'S METROPOLIS
CHICAGO AND THE GREAT WEST
By: William Cronon
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0393308731
ISBN 13: 9780393308730
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Publisher: WW NORTON & CO
Pub. date: 17 May, 1992
Pages: 592
Description: 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
Synopsis: 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
Publication: US
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Prizes: Winner of Bancroft Prize 1992 Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize 1992
Returns: Returnable
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