Nature's Laboratory
Environmental Thought and Labor Radicalism in Chicago, 1886–1937
$114.97
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2022
Summary
The untold history of how Chicago served as an important site of innovation in environmental thought as America transitioned to modern, industrial capitalism.
In Nature’s Laboratory, Elizabeth Grennan Browning argues that Chicago—a city characterized by rapid growth, severe labor unrest, and its position 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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421445212 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421445212 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Grennan Browning |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Like the complex city it catalogues and the multilayered concept of nature it examines, Nature’s Laboratory is a multifaceted book. Just as the intellectuals who explored Chicago learned from their experimental forays, readers who follow the book’s unexpected turns will be rewarded with perceptive interpretations and fresh questions.
—Isis
Elizabeth Grennan Browning has written an outstanding book. Nature’s Laboratory is a prime example of how historiography can incorporate ecocritical readings into long-standing tropes in histories of modernity and power.
—H-Environment
This incisive book explores the varying ways that intellectuals used environmental theories as part of the public debate over the “Labor Question” in the Midwest’s leading city from the 1870s through the 1930s.
—Middle West Review
Nature’s Laboratory is an important addition to Chicago’s intellectual and urban environmental history.
—Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
Elizabeth Grennan Browning
Elizabeth Grennan Browning is an assistant professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.
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