City of Lake and Prairie (eBook)

Chicago's Environmental History

William C. Barnett, Kathleen A. Brosnan, Ann Durkin Keating (Herausgeber)

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2020
600 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8772-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquetCity of Lake and Prairiewith 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.

Autor

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

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

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: History of the Urban Environment
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Chicago Deep tunnel • City of Lake and Prairie • climate change in the Midwest • conservation in Chicago • controlled prairie fires • ecological changes in Chicago • Environmental history • environmentalism in Chicago • Lake Michigan history • Midwestern environmentalism
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8772-4 / 0822987724
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8772-7 / 9780822987727