William Cronon

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Cronon
Occupation	Geographer
Date Of Birth	Sep 11, 1954(1954-09-11)
Age	70
Birthplace	New Haven
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Virgo

William Cronon Biography

William Cronon is one of the most popular and richest Geographer who was born on September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. William “Bill” Cronon, FBA (born September 11th, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a well-known environmental historian, and is his position is Frederick Jackson Turner as well as the Vilas Research Professors of Geography, History as well as Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was the president of the American Historical Association (AHA) in 2012.

The work Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) “is credited with having radically widened many environmental historians’ gaze beyond such things as forests and public lands to include cities and what Cronon calls the ‘elaborate and intimate linkages’ between city and country.” Cronon claims the fact that Chicago and capitalism profoundly altered what was once an landscape of the Midwestern countryside. In one of his chapters Cronon explains how grain became a commodity that was standard. The first time farmers sold it, it was in sacks, with the name of the farm’s owner stamped on the outside; as an item of trade it was offered in large quantities as a standard product that was stored in silos according to the grade. The book was awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History.

Cronon serves on the board of directors for The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation group. He has been a member of the Wilderness Society since 1995, and as of 2014 he served as vice chair of the organization’s governing council.

Cronon was also featured in Ken Burns’s 2009 documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.

In July 1985, Cronon was given the MacArthur Fellowship.

William Cronon Net Worth

William Cronon is one of the richest Geographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Cronon 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born from Connecticut, Cronon earned his D.Phil. at Jesus College, Oxford while being a Rhodes Scholar from 1976 to 1978. He has an B.A. (1976) in the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. (1979), M.Phil. (1980) and Ph.D. (1990) at Yale University.

Cronon is most well-known for his book Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983) Based on a paper he composed for Yale advisor Edmund Sears Morgan. Cronon argued that the way that cultures view ownership and property is an important factor in ecosystems and economies. In addition, in contrast to most historians, he demonstrated the fact that Native Americans actively intervened in and shaped the ecosystems which they lived.

In his book Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature (1995), and his essay “The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”, published in The New York Times (August 13, 1995), Cronon traced the idea of wilderness throughout American history. He claimed that the idea of untouched, pristine wilderness is a fantasy, because all of nature is interconnected. He concludes:

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What is William Cronon known for?

Cronon is best known for his first book Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983), based on a seminar paper he wrote for his Yale adviser Edmund Sears Morgan. He proposed that the way cultures conceptualize property and ownership is a major factor in economies and ecosystems.

How does William Cronon define wilderness?

Wilderness is the natural, unfallen antithesis of an unnatural civilization that has lost its soul. It is a place of freedom in which we can recover the true selves we have lost to the corrupting influences of our artificial lives. Most of all, it is the ultimate landscape of authenticity.

Why is wilderness a problematic concept?

This, then, is the central paradox: wilderness embodies a dualistic vision in which the human is entirely outside the natural. If we allow ourselves to believe that nature, to be true, must also be wild, then our very presence in nature represents its fall. The place where we are is the place where nature is not.

Where is William Cronon from?

New Haven, CT

What did William Cronon argue?

His argument, in short, is that “Wilderness” is a human construct – an idea that can only exist in the context of changing human attitudes and cultural narratives surrounding nature – and that it is this idea of preserving “Wilderness” that shapes the modern Environmentalism effort.