Showing Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon

Paperback. Pub Date: 1992 08 Pages: 556 Publisher: WW Norton & Co. In this groundeaking 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.