Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the great West (Record no. 72359)
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| fixed length control field | 02044 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393308730 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 977.311 |
| Item number | CRO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cronon, William |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nature's metropolis : Chicago and the great West |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | W. W. Norton & company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1992 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xxv,530p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents<br/>MAPS AND GRAPHS xiii<br/>PREFACE xv<br/>PROLOGUE: Cloud over Chicago 5<br/>PART I : TO BE THE CENTRAL CITY <br/>1: Dreaming the Metropolis 23<br/>Patterns on a Prairie Landscape 23<br/>Booster Dreams 31<br/>Metropolis and Empire 41<br/>Reading Turner Backwards 46<br/>2: Rails and Water 55<br/>Market in the Mud 55<br/>Artificial Corridors 63<br/>Railroad Time 74<br/>The Logic of Capital 81<br/>PART II : NATURE TO MARKET<br/>3: Pricing the Future: Grain 97<br/>Prairie into Farm 97<br/>A Sack's Journey 104<br/>The Golden Stream 109<br/>Futures 120<br/>Boundary Disputes 132<br/>Necessary Fictions 142<br/>4: The Wealth of Nature: Lumber 148<br/>Where Value Comes From 148<br/>From Forest to Prairie 151<br/>The Business of Lumber 159<br/>Cargo Market 169<br/>Buying by Rail 180<br/>Lost Hinterlands 183<br/>The Cutover 200<br/>5: Annihilating Space: Meat 207<br/>The Great Bovine City of the World 207<br/>Slaughtering the Bison 213<br/>Open Range and Feed Lot 218<br/>Porkopolis 225<br/>Storing the Winter 230<br/>Triumph of the Packers 235<br/>Unremembered Deaths 247<br/>PART III : THE GEOGRAPHY OF CAPITAL<br/>6: Gateway City 263<br/>Mapping Capital 263<br/>Credit Flows 269<br/>The Urban Hierarchy 279<br/>Gateway Rivalry: Chicago and St. Louis 295<br/>7: The Busy Hive 310<br/>Reaping the Factory's Harvest 310<br/>The Merchant's World: Prerailroad 318<br/>The Merchant's World: Postrailroad 324<br/>Catalogs on Kitchen Tables 333<br/>8: White City Pilgrimage 341<br/>The Great Fair 341<br/>Miracle of the Phoenix 345<br/>Metropolitan Vice 350<br/>The Moral Economy of City and Country 357<br/>City and Country as a Unity 364<br/>EPILOGUE: Where We Were Driving 371<br/>APPENDIX: Methodological Note on the Bankruptcy Maps 387<br/>NOTES 391<br/>BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 7 1<br/>INDEX 505<br/>Illustrations follow pages 168 and 328 |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FA |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Architecture | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 23/07/2024 | amazon.in | 1665.00 | 1 | 977.311 CRO | 026488 | 07/09/2024 | 25/08/2024 | 1665.00 | 23/07/2024 | Book |