Taming Manhattan : : Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City / / Catherine McNeur.
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 far...
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McNeur, Catherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Taming Manhattan : Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City / Catherine McNeur. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (350 p.) : 37 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Mad Dogs and Loose Hogs -- 2. Unequally Green -- 3. The Dung Heap of the Universe -- 4. Hog Wash and Swill Milk -- 5. Clearing the Lungs of the City -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Between 1815 and 1865, as city blocks encroached on farmland and undeveloped space to accommodate an exploding population, prosperous New Yorkers and their poorer neighbors developed very different ideas about what the city environment should contain. With Manhattan's image, health, and property values on their minds, the upper classes fought to eliminate urban agriculture and livestock, upgrade sanitation, build new neighborhoods, demolish shantytowns, create parks, and generally improve the sights and smells of city living. Poor New Yorkers, especially immigrants, resisted many of these changes, which threatened their way of life. By the time the Civil War erupted, bourgeois reform appeared to be succeeding. City government promised to regulate what seemed most ungovernable about urban habitation: the scourge of epidemics and fires, unending filth, and deepening poverty. Yet in privileging the priorities of well-heeled New Yorkers, Manhattan was tamed at the cost of amplifying environmental and economic disparities, as the Draft Riots of 1863 would soon demonstrate. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) City planning Environmental aspects History 19th century New York (State) New York. City planning Environmental aspects New York (State) New York History 19th century. Urbanization History 19th century New York (State) New York. Urbanization New York (State) New York History 19th century. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 9783110638721 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2014 9783110370225 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674725096 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735989 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735989 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674735989.jpg |
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