{"product_id":"the-future-city-on-the-eric-d-olmanson-9780821417072","title":"The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the AAG's John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Great Lakes American Studies Association\/Ohio University Press Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the nineteenth century, the southern shores of Lake Superior held great promise for developers imagining the next great metropolis. These new territories were seen as expanses to be filled, first with romantic visions, then with scientific images, and later with vistas designed to entice settlement and economic development. \u003ci\u003eThe Future City on the Inland Sea\u003c\/i\u003e describes the attempts of explorers under government, commercial, or scientific sponsorship to project their imaginative visions on a region where the future did not happen as planned.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Eric D. Olmanson takes a fresh look at the settlements in the vicinity of Chequamegon Bay and the Apostle Islands by analyzing the texts and images left by the missionaries, geologists, ordinance surveyors, newspaper editors, and boosters. \u003ci\u003eThe Future City on the Inland Sea\u003c\/i\u003e shows how new visions of the place absorbed and replaced the old ones, eventually producing what might be called for the first time \"a region.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than a regional geography, \u003ci\u003eThe Future City on the Inland Sea\u003c\/i\u003e is an appraisal of these early efforts to meld geographies of physical nature with those of human ideals, a demonstration of how thoroughly and paradoxically those two realms are entangled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric D. Olmanson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082141707X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821417072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.34w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 69","brand":"Eric D. Olmanson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096759836927,"sku":"9780821417072","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-future-city-on-the-eric-d-olmanson-9780821417072","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}