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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by Cronon, William
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0393029212
- ISBN 13
- 9780393029215
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. Second Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo; xxiii, 530 pages, clothbacked boards; discrete bookplate.
"This is an intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise. It is part geography, part economics, part political science, part animal husbandry, but it is really a work of biography -a look at the life of Chicago. At the heart of it is the argument that 'no city played a more important role in shaping the landscape and economy of the mid-continent during the second half of the 19th century' - David Shrieman. It was awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history. Prof. Cronon became President of the American Historical Association for 2011-2012. In 2011 he became a thorn in the side of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for opposing Walker's efforts to dismantle workers' unions. [ CHICAGO BY THE BOOK 101 Publications That Shaped The City and Its Image, 95 ].
"This is an intoxicating piece of scholarship and enterprise. It is part geography, part economics, part political science, part animal husbandry, but it is really a work of biography -a look at the life of Chicago. At the heart of it is the argument that 'no city played a more important role in shaping the landscape and economy of the mid-continent during the second half of the 19th century' - David Shrieman. It was awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize for the best work of American history. Prof. Cronon became President of the American Historical Association for 2011-2012. In 2011 he became a thorn in the side of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for opposing Walker's efforts to dismantle workers' unions. [ CHICAGO BY THE BOOK 101 Publications That Shaped The City and Its Image, 95 ].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 230340
- Title
- Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
- Author
- Cronon, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0393029212
- ISBN 13
- 9780393029215
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- America, Chicago, Midwest, Illinois, nature, historical geography, social history, sociology,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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