Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestW. W. Norton & Company, 1992 M05 5 - 530 páginas 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 |
Contenido
Cloud over Chicago | 5 |
Part I To be the Central City | 21 |
Part II Nature to Market | 95 |
Part III The Geography of Capital | 261 |
Where We Were Driving | 371 |
Methodological Note on the Bankruptcy Maps | 387 |
Notes | 391 |
Bibliography | 471 |
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