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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

From 1815 to 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland to accommodate Manhattanâ€™s exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers developed new ideas about what an urban environment should containâ€”ideas that poorer immigrants resisted. As Catherine McNeur shows, taming Manhattan came at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harvard University Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-11-03
Format Kindle eBook

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