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Article: Eric D. Olmanson. The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior.(Book review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- September 22, 2008
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Eric D. Olmanson. The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. 276. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $27.00.
If you are looking for a free piece of scholarship that elegantly melds historical geography and environmental history, or if you are just looking for a new and interesting work on Great Lakes history, especially one relating to Lake Superior, this is your book.
In The Future City on the Inland Sea, Eric Olmanson examines changing perspectives of the southern shore of Lake Superior using "a narrative-descriptive approach, most eloquently advocated ...