Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West

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Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West

Author	: William Cronon
File Size	: 43,7 Mb
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 November 2009
ISBN	: 9780393072457
Pages	: 592 pages

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Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon Book PDF Summary

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

Nature s Metropolis Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

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