Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestA 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 |
Contents
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Part II Nature to Market | 95 |
Part III The Geography of Capital | 261 |
Where We Were Driving | 371 |
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