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Literary Movement
Naturalism
Publication Name
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
ISBN
9780393308730
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393308731
ISBN-13
9780393308730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
996675

Product Key Features

Book Title
Nature's Metropolis : Chicago and the Great West
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1992
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
William Cronon
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

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Trade
Reviews
William Cronon challenges many of the conventions of both urban and western history in this pathbreaking book, and does so with unusual intelligence and elegance. More important, he helps lay the groundwork for a vital new field of scholarship: the history of the natural environment and its relationship to human society., An intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise...It is really a work of biography: a look at the life of Chicago., This book is the story of Chicago's progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia. . . . A marvelous book., An intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise. . . . It is really a work of biography: a look at the life of Chicago., No one has ever written a better book about a city...No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon., This book is the story of Chicago''s progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia...A marvelous book., This book is the story of Chicago's progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia...A marvelous book., No one has ever written a better book about a city. . . . No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon., Nature's Metropolis is that rare historical work which treats nature and the moral force we derive from it seriously...The roots of the modern environmental predicament are plainly visible in the economic dynamism that brought about the rise of Chicago in the mid-nineteenth century, which is a captivating story in its own right.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
977.3/11/03
Synopsis
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 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
LC Classification Number
F548.4 .C85

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