Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago

by Brian McCammack

Book Overview

Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize
Winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize

In the first interdisciplinary history to frame the African American Great Migration as an environmental experience, Landscapes of Hope travels to Chicago's parks and beaches as well as youth camps, vacation resorts, and the farms and forests of the rural Midwest. Despite persistent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674976371
• ISBN13: 9780674976375
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"