Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- ISBN-10
- 0393029212
- ISBN-13
- 9780393029215
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Company Incorporated
- Author
- William Cronon
Description
Argues that the American frontier and city developed together by focusing on Chicago and tracing its roots from Native American habitation to its transformation by white settlement and development
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- 1992-05-17
- 530 pages
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- W. W. Norton & Company
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