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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, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.

William Cronon

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, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes.

Tags: rural history, urban history

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About William Cronon

William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was president of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 2012.