{"product_id":"9780393072457","title":"Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. \"No one has written a better book about a city…\u003cem\u003eNature's Metropolis\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e Heartland Prize\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121424908528,"sku":"9780393072457","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393072457_p0.jpg?v=1763696391","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393072457","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}