Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0393308731 ISBN13: 9780393308730 Release Date: May 1992 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Length: 592 Pages Weight: 1.85 lbs. Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.4" 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