Main entry:

Cronon, William, author.

Title & Author:

Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West / William Cronon.

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1991]
©1991

Description:

xxiii, 530 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Cloud over Chicago -- Part I: To be the central city. Dreaming the Metropolis ; Rails and water -- Part II: Nature to market. Pricing the future: Grain ; The wealth of nature: Lumber ; Annihilating space: Meat -- Part III: The geography of capital. Gateway city ; The busy hive ; White City pilgrimage -- Epilogue: Where we were driving -- Appendix: Methodological note on the bankruptcy maps.
American Society for Environmental History George Perkins Marsh Prize, 1993.
Bancroft Prize, 1992.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Argues that the American frontier and city developed together by focusing on Chicago and tracing its roots from Native American habitation to its transformation by white settlement and development.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description
Klappentext
Klappentext

ISBN:

0393029212
9780393029215
0393308731
9780393308730

Subject:

Nature Effect of human beings on Illinois Chicago History 19th century.
Hombre Influencia sobre la naturaleza Chicago, EE. UU. Historia Siglo XIX.
Êtres humains Influence sur la nature Illinois Chicago Histoire 19e siècle.
74.25 geography of North America.
15.85 history of America.
Historical geography
Nature Effect of human beings on
Travel
Geschichte
Land
Stadt
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Chicago (Ill.) Description and travel.
Chicago (Ill.) Historical geography.
Chicago, EE. UU. Geografía histórica.
Chicago (Ill.) Descriptions et voyages.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago.
West (United States)
Chicago (Ill.) Description and travel To 1875.
Chicago (Ill.) Description and travel 1875-1950.
Illinois History

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75849
Call No.: ID:92-B301
Notes: manquant 2008/03
Status: Missing