William Cronon

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William Cronon (Born September 11, 1954, New Haven, Connecticut) is the at the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a noted environmental historian and the author of Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1985) and Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) as well as the editor of Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (1995) in which he authored the article "The Trouble with Wilderness". In July, 1985, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

In a study of a ghost town in Alaska, William Cronon has shown that a place depends on other places for it to exist.^[1]