Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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  • Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book Detail

  • Author : William Cronon
  • Release Date : 2009-11-02
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 590
  • ISBN 13 : 0393072452
  • File Size : 25,25 MB
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon PDF Summary

Book 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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