Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West

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The work Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the Great West

Title remainder

Chicago and the Great West

Statement of responsibility

William Cronon

Creator

• Cronon, William

Subject

• Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Historical geography
• Chicago <Ill.>
• Chicago, EE. UU. -- Geografía histórica
• Chicago, Ill
• Geschichte
• Historical geography
• History
• Hombre -- Influencia sobre la naturaleza -- Chicago, EE. UU. -- Historia -- Siglo XIX
• Illinois -- Chicago
• 1800-1899
• Land
• Nature -- Effect of human beings on
• Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Illinois | Chicago -- History -- 19th century
• Stadt
• Stadt
• Travel
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Land

Genre

• History

Language

eng

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

Awards note

• American Society for Environmental History George Perkins Marsh Prize, 1993.
• Bancroft Prize, 1992.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

977.3/11

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

F548.4

LC item number

.C85 1991

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

F548.4.C85

NAL item number

1991

Nature of contents

bibliography