Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 592
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ISBN-10 : 9780393072457
ISBN-13 : 0393072452
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Book Synopsis Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by : William Cronon

Download or read book Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West written by William Cronon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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