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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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.
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