Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- ISBN-10
- 0393072452
- ISBN-13
- 9780393072457
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 592
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-11-02
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- William Cronon
Description
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
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- 1992-05-17
- 530 pages
- Paperback
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- 1991
- 530 pages
- Paperback
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