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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City

McNeur, Catherine

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 0674979753
ISBN13: 9780674979758
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Oct 23 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library
James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

With pigs roaming the streets and cows foraging in the Battery, antebellum Manhattan would have been unrecognizable to inhabitants of today's sprawling metropolis. Fruits and vegetables came from small market gardens in the city, and manure piled high on streets and docks was gold to nearby farmers. But as Catherine McNeur reveals in this environmental history of Gotham, a battle to control the boundaries between city and country was already being waged, and the winners would take dramatic steps to outlaw New York's wild side.

[A] fine book which make[s] a real contribution to urban biography.

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