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Technology and culture, 2010-07, Vol.51 (3), p.728-737
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Cutcliffe revisits Nature's Metropolis, William Cronon's effort to show how "the boundary between human and nonhuman, natural and unnatural, is profoundly problematic. The book became an important precursor to the establishment of Envirotech, the group from the Society for the History of Technology and the American Society for Environmental History. Envirotech scholarship points to the "illusory boundary" between human beings, and especially their technology, and the natural world. Cronon's study of nineteenth-century Chicago led the way, and, after nearly twenty years in print, sufficient time has elapsed to warrant a reconsideration of its strengths and weaknesses. Whether one is a historian of technology or the environment, or an economic or urban or western historian, there is still much to ponder in this geographic mapping of nineteenth-century Chicago and its wide-reaching hinterland.