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Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great ~ Natures Metropolis is an economic and business history of the Great West and the key role that the city of Chicago played in the development of the west At times Cronon does a good job of for making the topics pretty interesting
Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great West by William ~ Natures Metropolis is an economic and business history of the Great West and the key role that the city of Chicago played in the development of the west At times Cronon does a good job of for making the topics pretty interesting However the overly long accounts of farm life finance credit and lumber shipments were far less enjoyable
Review Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great West ~ William Cronon’s book Nature’s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West offers both an intriguing and compelling account of the growth of Chicago and its Western hinterlands during the nineteenthcentury Throughout this work I was highly impressed with Cronon’s overall argument as well as his ability to provide a comprehensive account of Chicago’s growth in a manner that was both focused and thorough
Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great West William ~ This sounds like a cliché but it is not one in Cronon’s hands As he takes pains to make clear Nature’s Metropolis is not a comprehensive history of the city or the Great West Rather it is a story about how the city shaped the Great West while being shaped itself by the Great West
Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great West ~ In this groundbreaking work William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenthcentury America By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago Americas most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland Mr Cronon opens a new window onto our national past
Cronon Natures Metropolis ~ Cronon uses the rise of Chicago in the 19th century to explore the fundamental interconnectedness between city and country particularly how Chicago developed as a gateway city linking the Great West and as a conduit for the flow of goods and people
Book review Natures Metropolis Chicago and the Great ~ Chicago by contrast was connected to the East through Lake Michigan and the other Great Lakes Cronon notes that in 1834 a quarter of the 865 subscribers to Chicago’s first newspaper the Democrat were held by Easterners Many of these were residents of or traders with Detroit Buffalo and New York City
Nature’s Metropolis Turns 25 A Conversation with William ~ Nature’s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West W W Norton Co 1991 is the best history ever written about Chicago and I was honored to be able to interview William Cronon about his book on the 25 th anniversary of its publication at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History at the Drake Hotel in Chicago on April 1
Nature’s Metropolis ~ It is a small measure of irony that William Cronon currently the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor at this university spends a good number of pages at the beginning of Nature’s Metropolis addressing and rebutting Turner’s contribution to and influence over the subject of frontier expansion in the American west
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