William Cronon, photographed in the Madison, Wisconsin Arboretum in 2007.
Born
(1954-09-11) September 11, 1954 (age 69)
New Haven, Connecticut,
Nationality
American
Alma mater
University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) Yale University (MA, MPhil, PhD) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Occupation
Historian
Known for
President of the American Historical Association;
MacArthur Fellowship
William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian[1] 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.
^Janny Scott (April 3, 1999). "An Environmentalist on a Different Path; A Fresh View of the Supposed 'Wilderness' and Even the Indians' Place in It". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2009.
WilliamCronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor...
1995). online Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983) Cronon, William, Nature's Metropolis:...
Ecology of New England is a 1983 nonfiction book by historian WilliamCronon. In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate...
Religious Quest (2005) excerpt WilliamCronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" in WilliamCronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking...
replenishing soils with manure, and a sequence of events that led to erosion. WilliamCronon wrote that "...the long-term effect was to put those soils in jeopardy...
wilderness has been criticized by some nature writers. For example, WilliamCronon writes that what he calls a wilderness ethic or cult may "teach us to...
city, and nature) was, in fact, a messy socio-spatial continuum". And WilliamCronon argues against the idea of wilderness because it "involves a dualistic...
Fire". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2021-03-10.[dead link] Mitman, Gregg, and WILLIAMCRONON. “EPILOGUE.” Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film, University...
conservatives Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983) Cronon, William, Nature's...
environmental movement for having romantic idealizations of wilderness. WilliamCronon writes "wilderness serves as the unexamined foundation on which so many...
that these omissions had on minority groups. Environmental historian WilliamCronon proposed three ways to combat bias and ensure authentic and accurate...
in 1900. It became a venue for many national conventions. Historian WilliamCronon concludes: Because of the Chicago packers, ranchers in Wyoming and feedlot...
Seminar. Map 4. Albany: New York State Bulletin No. 506, 2005. p. 32. WilliamCronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England...
environmental history, and historical ecology. M. R. G. Conzen WilliamCrononWilliam Morris Davis Ge Jianxiong Patrick Geddes Elisabeth Gottschalk Torsten...
not observed any damages from demonstrations. On March 21, Professor WilliamCronon of the University of Wisconsin wrote an op-ed opposing the bill. In...
ISBN 9780231111577. Cronon, William (1983). Changes in the Land. New York: Hill and Wang. p. 51. ISBN 0-8090-0158-6. Cronon, William (1983). Changes in...
benefited enormously, with Kansas City a distant second. Historian WilliamCronon concludes: Because of the Chicago packers, ranchers in Wyoming and feedlot...
Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Bruce Catton (1899–1978) – American Civil War WilliamCronon (born 1954)...
(1996), "Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?", in WilliamCronon, (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton...
Abstract. Justice Professional Volume:3 Issue:1 (Spring 1988) Pages:70–93 William., Cronon (1996). Uncommon ground: rethinking the human place in nature. W.W...
Thatcher Ulrich (2009) Barbara Metcalf (2010) Anthony Grafton (2011) WilliamCronon (2012) Kenneth Pomeranz (2013) Jan E. Goldstein (2014) Vicki L. Ruiz...
Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 78, no. 4 (Summer 1995), pp. 276–293. Cronon, William. "Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson...
(1902–1979), Canadian Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history WilliamCronon (born 1954), US environmental Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China...
1912 Democratic National Convention. Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the...
literary critic Valery Chalidze, physicist and human rights organizer WilliamCronon, environmental historian Merce Cunningham, choreographer Jared Diamond...
and Cattle Ranching in the American West (U of Oklahoma Press, 1997). WilliamCronon, Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) p. 214. R. Douglas...
two years. He later served as the 25th vice president under President William McKinley for six months in 1901, assuming the presidency after McKinley's...
President of the American Historical Association 2011 Succeeded by WilliamCronon Awards Preceded by James S. Ackerman Balzan Prize 2002 With: Walter...
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