Nature's Metropolis appears in 6 book lists

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Nature's Metropolis appears in 6 book lists on Shepherd.

The best history books that explain the origins of our industrial food system

Book cover of Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City Book cover of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat Book cover of Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry Book cover of Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

My favorite books about modern society’s relationship with nature

Book cover of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore Book cover of Flight Behavior Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of The Makioka Sisters Book cover of Hard Times

My favorite books to understand how food shapes our lives

Book cover of The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health Book cover of Paradox of Plenty: A Social History of Eating in Modern America Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners Book cover of The Culture of Food

The best history books on cities, their trades, and world trade

Book cover of ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age Book cover of Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 Book cover of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy Book cover of From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfavolume 17 Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

My favorite books to understand American environmental history

Book cover of Desert Solitaire Book cover of The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World Book cover of Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

My favorite books on boundaries

Book cover of Underland: A Deep Time Journey Book cover of Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States Book cover of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Book cover of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Book cover of The Not-Quite States of America: Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA

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