Nature's Metropolis
Chicago and the Great West
By William Cronon
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393308730, 592pp.)
Publication Date: May 1992
Categories: United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age, United States - State & Local - General
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Description
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. Photographs and maps.











