City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more...
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Author: Kathleen Brosnan
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City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History by Brosnan, Kathleen

City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History

BD$44.91

City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History

BD$44.91
Author: Kathleen Brosnan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet--City of Lake and Prairie--with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors' interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease.

Author: Kathleen Brosnan
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822966739

About the Author
William C. Barnett is associate professor and chair of the History Department at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Ann Durkin Keating is Dr. C. Frederick Toenniges Professor of History at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

Kathleen Brosnan is the Paul and Doris Eaton Travis Chair of Modern American History at the University of Oklahoma.

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