Cronon: Natures Metropolis: Chicago & The Great West (cloth) - Hardcover

Cronon, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393029212 ISBN 13: 9780393029215

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991

Synopsis

An American frontier study, focusing on the fastest growing city of 19th-century America - Chicago. It shows the land as it was when inhabited by Indians and a few white settlers, and the frenzy of development of the meat-packing industry, the grain emporiums and the lumber markets which followed.

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Review:

Thoroughly original. . . . Likely to become a small classic. . . . Illuminating. . . . Brilliant. --Donald L. Miller"

Thoroughly original. . . . Illuminating. . . . Brilliant.--Donald L. Miller

This book is the story of Chicago''s progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia...A marvelous book.--Ward Just

Thoroughly original...Illuminating...Brilliant.--Donald L. Miller

No one has ever written a better book about a city...No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon.--Kenneth T. Jackson

An intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise...It is really a work of biography: a look at the life of Chicago.--David Shribman

This book is the story of Chicago's progress in the 19th century, the rough seduction of the hinterland, and how at its zenith the city ruled the commercial life of a vast inland region more completely and ruthlessly and profitably than any czar ruled Russia...A marvelous book.--Ward Just

Nature's Metropolis is that rare historical work which treats nature and the moral force we derive from it seriously...The roots of the modern environmental predicament are plainly visible in the economic dynamism that brought about the rise of Chicago in the mid-nineteenth century, which is a captivating story in its own right. --Verlyn Klinkenborg

Magnificent...the best work of economic and business history I've ever read.--Paul Krugman

William Cronon challenges many of the conventions of both urban and western history in this pathbreaking book, and does so with unusual intelligence and elegance. More important, he helps lay the groundwork for a vital new field of scholarship: the history of the natural environment and its relationship to human society.--Alan Brinkley, Columbia University

About the Author:

William Cronon is Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393029212
• ISBN 13: 9780393029215
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 556