Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe 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

• | Author: William Cronon
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: May 17, 1992
• | Number of Pages: 592 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0393308731
• | ISBN-13: 9780393308730