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Nature's Metropolis - Chicago And The Great West (Hardcover)
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Nature's Metropolis - Chicago And The Great West (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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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.
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