LEADER 02422nam 2200409 450 001 9910825069103321 005 20201225150252.0 010 $a0-8229-8772-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011389370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6308743 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011389370 100 $a20201225d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCity of lake and prairie $eChicago's environmental history /$fedited by Kathleen A. Brosnan, Ann Durkin Keating, and William C. Barnett 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (x, 406 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aHistory of the urban environment 311 $a0-8229-4631-9 330 $a"Known as the Windy City and the Hog Butcher to the World, Chicago has earned a more apt sobriquet-City of Lake and Prairie-with this compelling, innovative, and deeply researched environmental history. Sitting at the southwestern tip of Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and on the eastern edge of the tallgrass prairies that fill much of the North American interior, early residents in the land that Chicago now occupies enjoyed natural advantages, economic opportunities, and global connections over centuries, from the Native Americans who first inhabited the region to the urban dwellers who built a metropolis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As one millennium ended and a new one began, these same features sparked a distinctive Midwestern environmentalism aimed at preserving local ecosystems. Drawing on its contributors' interdisciplinary talents, this volume reveals a rich but often troubled landscape shaped by communities of color, workers, and activists as well as complex human relations with industry, waterways, animals, and disease"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aHistory of the urban environment. 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory 676 $a307.760977311 702 $aBrosnan$b Kathleen A.$f1960- 702 $aKeating$b Ann Durkin 702 $aBarnett$b William C. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825069103321 996 $aCity of lake and prairie$94057411 997 $aUNINA