William Cronon

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 In this groundbreaking 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. Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon constructs an interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Changes in the Land

Essays by revisionist historians, scientists, and cultural critics explore the connection between nature and American culture, analyzing how it is packaged and presented at places such as Sea World and the Nature Company stores

Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

William Philpott

Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

Vacationland

Gwendolyn Wright

Kenneth Frampton

Peter Reed

Anthony Alofskin

Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

Christopher W. Wells

An Environmental History

Car Country

David J. Weber

Sandra L. Myres

Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.

Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915

[This book offers an] interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. [In the book, the author] constructs [an] interdisciplinary analysis of how the land and the people influenced one another, and how that complex web of relationships shaped New England's communities.-Back cover.

Changes in the Land, Revised Edition

Essais d'histoire environnementale

Nature et récits

George A. Miles

Jay Gitlin

Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past

Rethinking America's Western Past

Under an Open Sky

William Cronon

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