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Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West / William Cronon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Norton paperbackPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 1992.Description: xxv, 530 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393308731
  • 9780393308730
  • 0393029212
  • 9780393029215
Other title:
  • Chicago and the Great West
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Nature's metropolis.DDC classification:
  • 977.3/11 20
LOC classification:
  • F548.4 .C85 1992
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 15.87
  • HD 475
  • NR 8925
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Dreaming the metropolis -- 2. Rails and water -- 3. Pricing the future: grain -- 4. The wealth of nature: lumber -- 5. Annihilating space: meat -- 6. Gateway city -- 7. The busy hive -- 8. White city pilgrimage.
Summary: "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"--Page 4 of cover.
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BOOK BOOK Harrison Memorial Library NONFICTION Adult Nonfiction 977.3 CRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31624003924685
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Originally published as hbk.: ©1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-503) and index.

1. Dreaming the metropolis -- 2. Rails and water -- 3. Pricing the future: grain -- 4. The wealth of nature: lumber -- 5. Annihilating space: meat -- 6. Gateway city -- 7. The busy hive -- 8. White city pilgrimage.

"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"--Page 4 of cover.

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