Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674745148
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780674725096
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Catherine McNeur
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.