This is an auction for NATURE'S METROPOLIS by William Cronon.

Subtitled "Chicago and the Great West".

"Thoroughly original…Illuminating…Brilliant." - New York Times Book Review

"No one has ever written a better book about a city…No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity and intelligence than Cronon." - Boston Globe

"An intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise…It is really a work of biography: a look at the life of Chicago." - Wall Street Journal

Amazon.com reviews:

"In this ground-breaking 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."

"FIVE STARS!! Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalogue companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation."

Very good condition.

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There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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