Nature's Metropolis

Chicago and the Great West

By William Cronon
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393308730, 592pp.)

Publication Date: May 1, 1992

Categories: United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age, United States - State & Local - General

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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.
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