Nature's metropolis: chicago and the great west - William Cronon

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In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America.

No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity, and intelligence than Cronon.

Indeed, no one has ever written a better book about a city.

--Boston Globe.

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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 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.