I can't pinpoint when it happened, but I gradually began to sense that my own life(including my affection for things natural) was not so free of the city and its institutions as I had once believed.
The more I learned the history of my home state, the more I realized that the human hand lay nearly as heavily on rural Wisconsin as on Chicago. By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin - a landscape of former prairies now long vanished - as somehow more "natural " than the streets , buldings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alternations of earlier landscapes. Why had I seen some human changes as "natural" - the farm, the woodlot, the agricultural countryside - but not the other ... (查看原文)
When told that "their Great Father in Washington had heard that hey wished to sell thier land," they denied the euphemism by replying that "their Great Father in Washington must hae seen a bad bird which had told him a lie, for that far from wishing to sell thir land, they wished to keep it." (查看原文)
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2 有用 Eudaemonia 2020-11-30 20:55:03
理论框架对我的影响很大，书评预定。
0 有用 soda 2022-11-05 16:36:18 北京
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1 有用 dq009 2020-12-21 14:42:47
城市史、环境史和经济史结合的典范之作。十九世纪中后期，在大西部自然资源和新英格兰资本的塑造下，芝加哥从“长满野蒜之地”成长为中西部门户城市。随着市场经济扩展，中西部腹地不断脱离芝加哥门户，加之芝加哥本身资源匮乏、环境恶化和诱导竞争，芝加哥逐渐失去门户地位。克罗农借芝加哥的兴衰，成功地将城市与乡村的故事作为一个整体加以叙述，告知读者城市和农村是共生关系，城市依靠自然资源和农村腹地发展，每座城市都是自... 城市史、环境史和经济史结合的典范之作。十九世纪中后期，在大西部自然资源和新英格兰资本的塑造下，芝加哥从“长满野蒜之地”成长为中西部门户城市。随着市场经济扩展，中西部腹地不断脱离芝加哥门户，加之芝加哥本身资源匮乏、环境恶化和诱导竞争，芝加哥逐渐失去门户地位。克罗农借芝加哥的兴衰，成功地将城市与乡村的故事作为一个整体加以叙述，告知读者城市和农村是共生关系，城市依靠自然资源和农村腹地发展，每座城市都是自然的大都市。 (展开)
1 有用 土狗贴贴 2023-06-12 22:24:57 上海
铁路与芝加哥
0 有用 真夏的布老虎 2024-05-28 18:09:09 吉林
克罗农超越了传统边疆史和城市史的框架，通过讨论城市及其腹地关系，开辟了城市环境史研究的“外在论”路径。但问题在于，随着商品关系不断强化，当第一自然逐渐走向第二自然，腹地逐渐转变为新的城市，自然便从讨论中逐渐隐退了——这就是所谓的“克罗农悖论”。这也正是许多人开卷有疑——这究竟是一部环境史著作，还是一部商业史著作？——的由来。