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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Harvard University Press, 2014 Cloth: 978-0-674-72509-6 | eISBN: 978-0-674-73598-9 Library of Congress Classification HN80.N5M36 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76097471
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattan’s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should contain—ideas that poorer immigrants resisted. As Catherine McNeur shows, taming Manhattan came at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities. See other books on: 1775-1865 | Environmental conditions | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) | New York (N.Y.) | Urbanization See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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