Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:225167 L3 - citeulike-article-id:225167 N2 - {Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog 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.} SN - 0393308731 AD - New York TI - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West PB - W.W. Norton & Co. KW - capitalism KW - chicago AU - Cronon, William PY - 1992/05/17/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0393308731 ER -