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Successful of the 1992 Bancroft Award, Nature's Metropolis broke new earth in the burgeoning field of environmental background, while also adding weight to both urban and Western background. Before its publication in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as particular in one another, each pursuing separate lines of development and maturity. Using Chicago and its own adjoining areas as a model, Cronon's reserve looks to disprove this idea. It shows the way the city-country story really prevails as a unified narrative. That is, the city was built on the fruits of its natural environment, and those environment succeed or fail only in relation to the city. Cronon built his ideas largely on Frederick Jackson Turner's 19th hundred years "frontier thesis," which stressed the result that taming the wilderness got on the American figure. Cronon improvements this to claim that capitalist market makes performed the major role in changing urban and rural areas mutually. While some have criticized Cronon for his obvious disdain for human being impact in the city-country story, Nature's Metropolis continues to be an influential reserve and is particularly lauded by the historical community.
