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“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of former prairies now long vanished—as somehow more “natural” than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.”

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Book:Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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William Cronon
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William Cronon, born on September 11, 1954, is an American historian and professor. He is renowned in the field of American history and environmental history, particularly for his research on the environmental history of North America. more

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