A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to

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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmar

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One of the oldest metropolitan areas in North America, Montreal has evolved from a remote fur-trading post in New France into an international center for servic