Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West write by William Cronon. This book was released on 2009-11-02. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
An Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis
An Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis write by Cheryl Hudson. This book was released on 2017-07-28. An Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What caused the rise of Chicago, and how did the city's expansion fuel the westward movement of the American frontier – and influence the type of society that evolved as a result? Nature's Metropolis emerged as a result of William Cronon asking and answering those questions, and the work can usefully be seen as an extended example of the critical thinking skill of problem-solving in action. Cronon navigates a path between the followers of Frederick Jackson Turner, author of the thesis that American character was shaped by the experience of the frontier, and revisionists who sought to suggest that the rugged individualism Turner depicted as a creation of life in the West was little but a fiction. For Cronon, the most productive question to ask was not whether or not men forged in the liberty-loving furnace of the Wild West had the sort of impact on America that Turner posited, but the quite different one of how capitalism and political economy had combined to drive the westward expansion of the US. For Cronon, individualism was scarcely even possible in a capitalist machine in which humans were little more than cogs, and the needs and demands of capital, not capitalists, prevailed. Nature's Metropolis, then, is a work in which the rise of Chicago is explained by generating alternative possibilities, and one that uses a rigorous study of the evidence to decide between competing solutions to the problem. It is also a fine work of interpretation, for a large part of Cronon's argument revolves around his attempt to define exactly what is rural, and what is urban, and how the two interact to create a novel economic force.
Changes in the Land
Changes in the Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changes in the Land write by William Cronon. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Changes in the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Nature's Metropolis
Nature's Metropolis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Metropolis write by Cheryl Hudson. This book was released on 2017-07-15. Nature's Metropolis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before the publication of Nature's Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, eact following separate lines of development and maturity. Using Chicago and its surrounding areas as a model, Cronon shows that the city-country story should be treated as a unified narrative, with each part inseparable from, and dependent on, the other. Cronon builds on Frederick Jackson Turner's nineteenth century "frontier thesis, "which stressed the effect that taming the wilderness had on the American character. He argues that nature has shaped human creativity and that capitalist market forces played the major role in changing urban and rural areas together. Book jacket.
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature write by William Cronon. This book was released on 1996-10-17. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution. People, Cronon argues, are inextricably tied to nature, whether they live in cities or countryside. Rather than attempt to exclude humans, environmental advocates should help us learn to live in some sustainable relationship with nature. It is our home.
