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William Cronon
Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West [EPUB ebook]

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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

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William Cronon is Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 592 ● ISBN 9780393072457 ● Tamaño de archivo 13.7 MB ● Editorial W. W. Norton & Company ● País US ● Publicado 2009 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7467356 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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