Nature's Laboratory

Nature's Laboratory
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781421445212
ISBN-13 : 1421445212
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Book Synopsis Nature's Laboratory by : Elizabeth Grennan Browning

Download or read book Nature's Laboratory written by Elizabeth Grennan Browning and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author argues that Chicago--a city of rapid growth and severe labor unrest as well as a gateway to the West--offers the clearest lens for analyzing the history of the intellectual divide between countryside and city in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. She shows that Chicago served as a kind of urban laboratory where numerous public intellectuals experimented with various strains of environmental thinking"--


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