Nature'S Laboratory: Environmental Thought And Labor Radicalism In Chicago, 1886–1937

The author argues that Chicago--a city of rapid growth and severe labor unrest as well as a gateway to the West--offers the clearest lens for analyzing the history of the intellectual divide between countryside and city in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. She shows that Chicago served as a kind of urban laboratory where numerous public intellectuals experimented with various strains of environmental thinking--

• | Author: Elizabeth Grennan Browning
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Business & Economics
• | ISBN-10: 1421445212
• | ISBN-13: 9781421445212